Watch the video and read the transcript of Katie Couric’s June 2005 conversation with Graham about his last crusade, his legacy and the hardships of aging.

Read an Aug. 14, 2006, Newsweek article about Graham’s twilight years.

See a Dec. 13, 2006, Washington Post story about the dispute at that time over where Billy and Ruth Graham should be buried.

Read an Oct. 4, 2011, Religion News Service story about Nearing Home, in which Graham reflects on growing old. The article is posted by The Christian Century.

Read an excerpt from Graham’s 2011 memoir, Nearing Home: Life, Faith and Finishing Well. It’s posted by Christianity Today.

Dr. Stuart Youngner is director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and a professor of bioethics, medicine and psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He has written and lectured on physician-assisted suicide, decisions to limit life-sustaining treatment, advance directives, definitions of death, ethics committees and ethical issues in organ retrieval and transplantation. He recently co-directed a national […]

Read a 1999 New York Times article about the highly controversial views of Peter Singer of Princeton University. Singer is a philosopher who applies a utilitarian approach to bioethics, and his ideas on infanticide, animal rights, euthanasia and rights of the disabled challenge much thinking in mainstream bioethics.

The Project on Death in America seeks to transform the culture of dying by supporting initiatives in research, scholarship, the humanities and the arts, and by fostering innovation in the provision of care, public and professional education, and public policy. It is a major funder of research on death, dying and palliative care.

Read a March 14, 2012, article from Christianity Today about the scholarly reaction to Oded Golan’s acquittal in his forgery trial. Scholars and experts who have long doubted the authenticity and interpretation of the bone box are quick to say that Golan’s acquittal does not validate the historicity of the ossuary.