Once in a while, I like to take a step back from my daily concerns and ask myself what it means to live a good life. What would I be thinking about each day? What would I be saying and doing? The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. “A life well lived” is a classic saying found in many obituaries and the singular goal that a lot of ...

He has profoundly influenced so many lives—including mine—for the better.

What constitutes a life well-lived? A new Michigan State University-led study is turning to a common cultural artifact to find out: the obituary. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

George Wendt died this week at the age of 76. I first met him at The Second City in Chicago, where he was already being typecast in bits as paunchy cops and roly-poly city council members. But he was ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—An award-winning filmmaker will headline the concluding activities of an event series in Kalamazoo encouraging residents to engage with the question, “What is a life well lived?” On ...

Obituaries function as time capsules that reflect what people, at any given moment in history, understand to be a life well-lived. By studying how obituaries evolve across time and context, we can ...

Had it not been for his great-niece, we couldn’t have shared the one about Jimmy Rasel in last Sunday’s newspaper. The 79-year-old Lone Pine man was beloved to all who met him, and Amanda McWreath ...

Few combine the art of living well with the science of living long as successfully as Deborah Szekely. The 85-year-old founder of two seminal spas — Rancho La Puerta and Golden Door (which is ...