Ten percent of all health care dollars are spent in the last year of life. Those final days are when the toughest, most costly decisions are made, and emotion can easily overrun decision making. Here's one man's story about the choices he made.

Turns out online funerals aren’t just for celebrities. More and more families across the U.S. are looking at them as a way to cut costs, and include more friends and relatives.

Some of America's favorite summertime activities may be fun, but they come with a lot of risks.

I've got a fair amount of student loans. I've also got a good job as a college professor, and I will be able to pay them off eventually. But I'm concerned about my wife. If something should happen, do student loans transfer to a spouse or do they stick with me? Rudolf, Providence, RI

It isn't always an easy subject, but what are the best ways to plan ahead for your funeral, and the money you leave behind?

A Florida funeral home debuts the Resomator, which "uses heated alkaline water to dissolve bodies in about three hours." It's said to be more…

So a new jetpack designed by New Zealanders has started doing some test runs. It tackles a central problem that every jetpack builder has faced:…

We asked people in the Public Insight Network about whether they've thought about what to do with their online lives after they die.  Here are…