How to find meaning in the face of death

"The psychiatrist William Breitbart lives at the edge of life and death. As chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Breitbart specializes in end-of-life care for terminally ill cancer patients. For many of his patients, the most pressing question isn’t when they’ll die or how painful death will be. Rather, it’s what makes life meaningful. They are in search of a meaning that cannot be destroyed by death." Is there one? Read on....

The five biggest regrets of the dying

A hospice nurse reports the five regrets that her patients most often shared in their final days. Click here to read about her study.

What is most important in life?

A 75 year Harvard study has discovered the #1 secret to a happy life -- spoiler alert: relationships. Click here to read more....

Viola Davis' Oscar speech celebrates what it means to live a life

"Thank you to the Academy. You know, there's one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered. One place and that's the graveyard. People ask me all the time, what kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola? And I say, exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories. The stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition. People who fell in love and lost. I became an artist—and thank God I did—because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life." -- Viola Davis