Science is exploring the intriguing phenomenon of death premonitions, where individuals sense their impending end.

At the edge of death, some people wake into sudden clarity. Terminal lucidity is one of the mind’s most baffling mysteries.

Doctors followed the standard steps after a patient’s death: they notified Hoover’s family and prepared him—an organ donor ...

Expanding the definition of death makes a mockery of medical practitioners who seek to restore their patients to health. An ...

Slow, sleep-like brain waves persist in part of the brain that has been surgically disconnected from the rest of the organ even though the person is awake. The findings 1, published in PLoS Biology, ...