John Prine, who promised "I'm gonna smoke a cigarette that's nine miles long" in his final album's final song, "When I Get to Heaven," died on April 7, 2020. November 28 marked the death of real-life ...

If you want to track the rise of our celebrity-obsessed culture, look no further than the obituaries. Researchers found that during the 20th century, more and more obituaries of entertainers and ...

Research by the University of Warwick shows how death gave birth to the modern cult of celebrity as the sudden rise in the popularity of obituaries of unusual people in the 1700s provided people with ...

Celebrity Obituaries in recent months read as a "Who's Who" in popular culture: Farrah Fawcett, 62, David Carradine, 72, Billy Mayes, 50, Michael Jackson, 50, Exodus Tyson, 4, Mark Landon, 60 actor ...