Remains of a 3-Year-Old Child Are the Oldest Known Burial in Africa
The discovery sheds light on how people in the region cared for their dead at that time.
New Scientist
Topics: Cultural Evolution Death Human Evolution Symbolic Behavior
How Did Hundreds of Human Skeletons Mysteriously End Up in a Faraway Lake?
Hidden away in the Indian Himalayas, Roopkund Lake may appear serene, but it is hiding dark and disturbing secrets. Hundreds of them.
SYFY Wire
Topics: Death
What If We Could Live for a Million Years?
Vastly extended life spans would bring dazzling opportunities — and daunting risks.
Scientific American
Topics: Death Longevity
What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About the Brain
A close brush can leave a lasting mental legacy — and may tell us about how the mind functions under extreme conditions.
Topics: Consciousness Death Transformation
Healthy Dose of Religion
Regularly attending religious services associated with lower risk of deaths of despair, Chan School study says.
The Harvard Gazette
Topics: Death Hope Meaning Religiosity Resilience
Animal Grief Shows We Aren’t Meant to Die Alone
The coronavirus pandemic is robbing some people of a chance to come together to mourn: a practice deeply embedded in many animal species.
SAPIENS
Topics: Animal Studies Barbara King Death Emotion Ritual
What Happens When We’re Reminded of Death at Work
Research shows engagement can increase — but so can anxiety.
Harvard Business Review
Topics: Death Meaning
Does Consciousness Continue After Our Brain Dies?
The study of near-death experiences is challenging the idea our consciousness fades to black when our body expires.
National Post
Topics: Consciousness Death
Changing the National Conversation Around Death
Symposium explores how we approach dying so we can live richer lives.
BU Today
Topics: Death Spiritual Care Spirituality
Want to Live Longer? Consider the Ethics
Several companies are trying to develop life extension methods that could enable some people to live far longer. There are some ethical dilemmas.
The Conversation
Topics: Death Ethics Immortality Social Inequality
Quest for a Peaceful Death
A cancer doctor studies the connection between spirituality and end-of-life care.
Discover
Is Death Still Frightening If You Believe the Self Is an Illusion? An Astonishing Study of Tibetan Buddhists
A central tenet of the religion is that all is impermanent and the self is actually an illusion. If there is no self, then why fear the end of the self?
British Psychological Society Research Digest
Topics: Death Religious Groups
What Would Life Look Like If We Lived Forever?
Science is now laying siege to the deeply embedded notions that death and aging are immovable realities of life — and science may be winning.
Quartz
Topics: Aging Death Ethics Immortality Social Inequality
The Big Sleep and Beyond: What’s Behind Our Fascination With the Afterlife
What happens after we die has been a core aspect of many religions, and a subject of imagination for many practitioners of the arts.
AirTalk
Topics: Death Immortality
Who First Buried the Dead?
Evidence of burial rites by the primitive, small-brained Homo naledi suggests that symbolic behavior is very ancient indeed.
Aeon
Topics: Cultural Evolution Death Human Evolution Human Uniqueness Ritual
What Can We Learn From Near-Death Experiences?
Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin studied people’s stories of near-death experiences. He discusses what these people and experiences had in common and what can be learned from them.
Houston Matters
Topics: Consciousness Death Meaning Transformation
After Death, You’re Aware That You’ve Died, Say Scientists
Some evidence attributes a certain neurological phenomenon to a near death experience.
Big Think
The Popularity of Near-Death Experience
Near-Death Experiences exhibits intellectual virtues rarely valued in popular discourse and sometimes honored only in the breach in academic circles.
Los Angeles Review of Books
Topics: Consciousness Death Immortality Transformation
What Are the Ethical Consequences of Immortality Technology?
If we treat death as a problem, what are the ethical implications of the highly speculative ‘solutions’ being mooted?
Topics: Death Ethics Immortality
Emotions Expressed by the Dying Are Unexpectedly Positive
“When we imagine our emotions as we approach death, we think mostly of sadness and terror,” says psychological scientist Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “But it turns out, dying is less sad and terrifying — and happier — than you think.”
Association for Psychological Science
Topics: Death Emotion Kurt Gray
How to Find Meaning in the Face of Death
The time between diagnosis and death presents an opportunity for “extraordinary growth.”
The Atlantic
Topics: Death Hope Meaning
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