For generations, medicine treated death as a clean line: the instant the heart stops, the person is gone. A wave of new research is dismantling that certainty, revealing a messy, lingering borderland ...

A dead person is now an interactive AI persona reconstructed from his online persona and recorded memories. Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin hopes it’s an early step in recreating a person long ...

In an earlier post, I argued against the idea that the mind could survive the death of the brain. One thing I didn't do was discuss the empirical evidence that supposedly supports the reality of life ...

Filmmaker Reid Davenport discusses the challenges behind his new doc and shares his fears after cuts to publicly funded media: “I don't know how independent films are going to be made and seen now.” ...

The U.K. mother wants to make the process legal in her home country Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Wendy Duffy traveled to Switzerland for voluntary assisted dying after years of grief ...