From end-of-life care to burials and beyond, we answer your questions on mortality. By Amanda Schupak Illustrations by Xiao Hua Yang We are all going to die. Yet this inescapable fact often goes ...

During my father’s second year of being cared for in a nursing home, I bumped into one of his old neighbours. Having been told he was still doing OK, she ruefully observed: "Yes, they keep you alive ...