Let’s get one thing straight right out the gate: Death doesn’t mean death — not in tarot, anyway. Card XIII in the Major Arcana, Death gets a bad rap because, well, the name’s a little intense. But ...

Any time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction. When someone dies from the bird flu—as an elderly Louisiana man did on Jan. 6, ...

Death may be life’s one certainty, but that doesn’t mean we’re ever truly ready to face it. I still remember lying awake one night after a routine checkup with my father where my doctor casually ...