The 24-year-old figure skater, whose parents were 1994 World Figure Skating pairs champions Evgenia “Zhenya” Shishkova and ...

About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." "I saw all the ways people could be ...

On December 28, 1925, the young and very popular Russian poet Sergei Esenin hanged himself in the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad. His suicide generated an outpouring of shock and grief throughout the ...

While the exact numbers are debatable, scientific research using validated psychometric tools—like the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale—has been conducted in ...

At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a push from the Trump administration. By Eduardo Medina Two days before ...

The deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife have drawn attention to California’s long and tangled history with the death penalty. Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead of stab ...

Claire Tracy, the 19-year-old former Rice University soccer player found dead in her Houston apartment Sunday, killed herself by inhaling helium, according to an online report from the Harris County ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago, when ice covered the Sierra Nevada, a lake 100 miles long and 600 feet deep ...

An ancient lake that thrived during the last Ice Age has reemerged in California's Death Valley National Park, after a record spell of rainfall hit the area, the National Park Service said. Informally ...

Anderson Farms in Ontario, Canada, announced Dec. 9 it had acquired and already syndicated proven stallion Sergei Prokofiev , a son of Scat Daddy who the farm bred and went on to become the leading ...

Former Los Angeles Lakers center Elden Campbell died due to drowning, officials announced this week. The ex-NBA champion passed away on Monday in Pompano Beach, Fla., and the manner of his death was ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of Popular Mechanics’ greatest stories. It was initially published in December 2022. On December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked in to Oakland Children’s ...