People spend a significant amount of time trying to create the perfect life but don’t put as much energy into planning for death. Understandably so—one’s demise is a frightening reality, especially ...

Judy Woodruff: Alua Arthur is referred to as a death doula, someone who helps people at the end of life. Her story was discovered through our Brief But Spectacular open call for ideas from the public.

One of the things that makes humans unique is our awareness of the inevitability of death. While many of us push this death awareness out of our minds in our daily lives, it is undeniable that 10 out ...

Limitless with Chris Hemsworth is now streaming on Disney+ and ahead of its launch, we were able to sit down with a number of experts to talk about their incredible work with the one-and-only God of ...

Most people don’t want to talk about death, or listen to others talk about it. Yet it was precisely such a discussion, hot on the heels of a near-death experience, that gave a then-depressed and ...

There is little about Alua Arthur that emanates the deathly or morbid. The 45-year-old Los Angeles resident has a radiant, gap-toothed smile, a propensity for citrus-colored nail polish and an ...

Alua Arthur wants to change the way you think about death. “Being aware of our mortality and having a relationship with it allows us to look at our lives holistically,” she says. “We can see more ...