A hospice nurse has revealed the three things that shocked her the most about death when she first started her career - from people being able to hear even when they're unconscious to dehydration actually making the process less painful. Julie McFadden, 41 - a registered nurse based in Los Angeles, California, who specializes in end of life care - has racked up hundreds of thousands of followers while sharing insights into people's final moments in the hopes of destigmatizing death. Most recently, she uploaded a video to her YouTube channel in which she detailed the three most surprising things …

I have a fond memory from a Monday a month or so after my mum died. My friend Deb’s son, then three years old, was playing hide and seek with my daughter of the same age. He picked a delightfully impressive hiding place, wedging himself into the bottom of my floor-to-ceiling shelves. He was wearing camouflage print and against the usual domestic detritus on our shelves proved genuinely difficult to find. Quite a feat. I properly laughed, for which I was truly grateful. It had been quite a while since I had laughed like that. Deb was there to deliver…

"We'd go to the mall for a few hours, grab something to eat, walk across the street to the theater and see a movie, then have someone pick us up or take us to late-night bowling or roller skating. We were hardly home!" Recently, members of the BuzzFeed Community shared how they had fun before the internet, and the responses were both wholesome and VERY nostalgic! So nostalgic, in fact, that they inspired even more people to share their experiences. Here are some of the best responses: 1. "Sitting by the radio for hours to wait for the ONE song…

People are losing the cognitive and social skills they need for a thriving personal and professional life, says organizational psychologist Richard Davis. "We are at risk of losing this essential capability that I call receptivity," says Davis, the managing director of Toronto-based leadership consulting firm Russell Reynolds Associates. "It's the ability to have good judgment, to have insight about people, and it's a major concern." Technology, social media and artificial intelligence are to blame, Davis adds: People rely so much on their their phones that they're increasingly unable to make judgment calls on their own. "It's a cognitive ability that…