Death and dying

At least 124 people died after a roof of a popular club in the Dominican Republic collapsed Tuesday morning.

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Residents and elected officials gathered Wednesday night to remember the people lost in the mid-air collision outside Reagan National Airport just over a week ago.

The abortion rights advocate died on Monday of brain cancer at age 67.

The star of the long-running TV sitcom “Alice” passed away in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Video of the fatal Dec. 9 assault on Robert Brooks was made public on Friday by the state’s attorney general, who is investigating the officers’ use of force.

People across Southeast Asia commemorated the lives of those lost two decades ago in the massive Indian Ocean tsunami that killed close to 230,000.

Nearly a dozen of families learned that their relatives’ bodies had been used for medical research not from a medical examiner, hospital or police officer — but from NBC News and Noticias Telemundo.

Boston Scientific’s Relievant Medsystems used at least 25 unclaimed bodies for training, including that of a murdered 21-year-old woman whose family was fighting to bring her home. The company said it didn’t know.

Aurimar Iturriago Villegas left Venezuela hoping to lift her family out of poverty. When she was murdered, her corpse became a commodity in the U.S. body trade.

Karen Wandel was stunned at what happened when her family failed to claim her father’s body after his death. Supplying unclaimed bodies for medical research is widely considered unethical, and most major medical schools have halted the practice — and yet it continues.

A disgraced chiropractor who was selling bodies faces allegations that he mishandled human remains.

Former marine Daniel Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 death of Jordan Neely in New York.

John Tinniswood passed away at age 112 on Monday in Southport, England.

A funeral was held Wednesday for the pop singer who died in Buenos Aires at the age of 31.

State regulators have ordered a Texas medical school to immediately halt its practice of liquefying bodies after using them for training and research.

Simon Cowell is mourning the loss of Liam Payne. The 65-year-old, who has a long history with Liam having played a role in the creation of One Direction, took to Instagram to pay tribute to the late singer.

Simon Cowell mourned the loss of Liam Payne, whose rise to fame on “The X Factor” Cowell helped orchestrate.

Louis Tomlinson is mourning the loss of his former One Direction bandmate.