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Living, Dying, and the Meaning of Life blends ethics, medicine, religion, and philosophy to ask this and other big questions.

Apeirophobia, the fear of prolonged existence, and thanatophobia, the fear of death, drive anxieties about life and mortality ...

Alexei Navalny is dead. And yet he lives. He lives to trouble Vladimir Putin, the authoritarian strongman of Russia who may ...

Death and Immortality Shiva, the supreme ascetic and cosmic dancer, embodies both destruction and eternal existence. Known as ...

The ancient Greek myth of Endymion and Selene is one of the famous love stories that has inspired several artists and writers ...

In different states of consciousness, qualia come and go. Smelling a rose when you are awake is different from smelling a rose when you are dreaming. In deep, dreamless sleep, qualia subside, and ...

Cyra sacrificed immortality to restore Spider-Man to life and used her Crimson powers to turn Spider-Man into an unstoppable ...

The singer died in 1971. A new documentary series posits that he faked his death to escape the burden of fame, and is living ...

His death on the cross would pay the penalty for the sin of the world. His burial and resurrection prove this sacrifice was ...

From climate change to nuclear weapons to lethal disease, the Trump administration seems to have decided that preventing mass ...

they view everything from retail luxury items to relationships as disposable (and easily replaceable), they think nothing of ...