We know something is important when it is a matter of life and death. Death makes us afraid. Many of us fear our own deaths as well as the deaths of people we love. Death is so complete, so ...

The Zohar portrays Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai's death not as a separation, but as a joyous, revelatory (and fiery) union with the divine. The Zohar describes at great length the death and burial of Rabbi ...

What happens during a near-death experience? A fascinating new study has answers. Photo courtesy Joecici and Pixels. What if death itself is not the end we have thought and assumed? What if who we are ...

A doctor noticed a swelling on my left ankle. That led to X-rays, an MRI and eventually a full body bone scan. Some reports hinted at cancer, others at major arthritis, and others at more testing. I ...

Death is a subject that repels us. We don't like to dwell on it. We avoid it, camouflage it, hide it, reject it. However, I encourage you to continue reading. While thinking about death can be very ...

In 399 B.C., at the Heliaia, the principal court of Athens, an elderly man addressed a jury of his peers. Accused of impiety and corrupting the youth, the man, aged about 70, said he was innocent, ...