Some celebrities have died in heartbreaking circumstances.

It was June 6th, 1968, and Robert F. Kennedy, the leading contender to become the Democratic presidential nominee, had just been assassinated in Los Angeles. Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the city’s chief ...

Samuel Ashworth’s “The Death and Life of August Sweeney” is a novel concerned with viscera and the flesh. It begins with Sweeney — a gargantuan chef, of considerable appetites — discovering the source ...

After the couple were found dead in their New Mexico home Wednesday, they were “transported to the Office of the Medical Investigator,” the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a news release.

Maybe you were one of the 11.7 million people who watched when, on House M.D., the genius diagnostician Gregory House is roused in the middle of the night by a pounding at the door. A man he just gave ...

The very public sharing of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s health details raises ethical questions over privacy. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been following news of the deaths of actor Gene ...