Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Dies; Famed for Work on Dying
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-born psychiatrist and author who gained international fame for her landmark work on death and dying, has died in her suburban Phoenix home.
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There are no words to express the depth and breadth of the lives that she has touched. The death of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, an icon in Thanatology, is a profound loss for every person around the world.
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Janet Leigh, the actress best known for being hacked to death in a motel room shower in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s 1960 classic thriller &quot;Psycho,&quot; died Oct. 3 at her Beverly Hills home.
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Susan Sontag, the author, human rights activist and social critic, has died in a New York cancer hospital, aged 71. Ms Sontag, who had suffered from leukemia for some time, was known for interests that ranged
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the psychiatrist who has died aged 78, was considered one of the world&#39;s foremost authorities on the psychology of dying, and is credited with changing attitudes towards the terminally ill.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering heart and lung failure.
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By Melissa Harris, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 23--During Jay Koontz's final days, as his brain tumor slowed his  breathing, his wife sat at his bedside and quietly read him notes that had  been posted on his Web site.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot  to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of  18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday,  a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, was an icon of  1950s intellectuals and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she  portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late  President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs  and for tax evasion.
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Remembering the incandescent star on the 14th anniversary of her death
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"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair," the late British author W. Somerset Maugham has oft been quoted as saying. He obviously didn't live in the Anna Nicole Smith era.
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Some relatives of people who died with Dr. Jack Kevorkian's help say his release from prison stirs up grief over the deaths of their loved ones. Others are grateful for the services the retired pathologist offered to family members.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer. She died about 9 p.m. Monday, said her manager, Edgar Vincent.
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LONDON, Dec 4  A critically ill British woman who won a landmark legal ruling this week to travel abroad for an assisted suicide has died at a Swiss clinic, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VES) said ...
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"The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life." &#151; Luciano Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, in a statement on the opera superstar's death this week at age 71.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of 18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, courted controversy throughout her life and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs and for tax fraud.
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Social critic and author Susan  Sontag, one of America's leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday  at age 71 at New York's Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle  with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.