A feature in The Atlantic asks whether animals understand their own mortality. “Comparative thanatology,” the study of how animals experience death, is a small field that dates back to Aristotle, who ...

Brushes with death can have lasting effects, but very few studies bother to ask children about them.

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- For more than 600 Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) students, a very different kind of lesson is part of their schedule. The district offers grief counseling services to students ...

Last week, I ran across a DVD of the animated Disney classic The Lion King. In the movie, there is an explicit death of a protagonist character, Mufasa. This death scene and the recent mass shootings ...

The finality of death is something that even humans struggle to come to terms with, yet certain animals demonstrate a remarkably sophisticated comprehension of this eternal journey into the void.

Kids are more capable of discussing death than we realize. If you haven't already, it's time to talk to your kids about death. Source: dipressionist/123RF One of the realities of living through the ...

Tahlequah’s calf lived for only an hour. But mother, it seemed, was not ready to let baby go. For 17 days in the summer of 2018, the orca swam with her offspring balanced on her snout, covering more ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Death is a part of life, but when scientists try to analyze the widespread phenomenon of close calls with non-being, one major age group is often ...