An ambulance backs into a parking lot on Friday at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Washington state. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption
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Doctor Considers The Pitfalls Of Extending Life And Prolonging Death
"It's easier to sort of face the hard things in your life when you're not alone," says hospice chaplain Kerry Egan. "That's a big part of what a chaplain does, is she stays with you." Ann Summa/Getty Images hide caption
Hospice Chaplain Reflects On Life, Death And The 'Strength Of The Human Soul'
A new study shows energy output from 200,000 galaxies is half what it was billions of years ago. It's further evidence the universe is slowly declining. This undated NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1512 captured in all wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared. Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Landov hide caption
Of I Wish You the Sunshine of Tomorrow, Rodgers says: "The ICU room my dad was in on the day he died had yellow walls. Every time we visited him we had to wear hospital gowns that were a bright yellow. [It] was a recurring color in that whole time frame of my life." Courtesy of Jennifer Rodgers hide caption
Could the images common in accounts of near-death experiences be explained by a rush of electrical activity in the brain? Odina/iStockphoto.com hide caption