DEATH

It started with the plague, but it's no longer accurate.

The graceful game was responsible for enough royal deaths to make an executioner jealous.

As if cemeteries weren't spooky enough.

Melissa Moore wondered—could she share a trace of her father's evil?

It's usually hard to vanish without a trace, but these folks managed it.

Mummified penguins occasionally turn up, too.

Over the course of a century, several theories have arisen to explain the true cause of Nora Emily Fornario's death.

There were 174 marriage proposals—and dozens of bodies.

Better late than never.

Some of these grave innovations are practical. Others, however, border on the bizarre and downright creepy.

You can be pronounced or declared dead, but only a few people can do the former.

We all have to go sometime. Hopefully, it won't be while choking to death at a cockroach-eating contest.