Former pro wrestlers say many top stars have died before age 50, prompting concerns about the industry's culture and safety. Here are some of the biggest names, their ages and reported causes of death:

A SOCIAL HISTORY OF DYING
By Allan Kellehear

Cambridge University Press, 310 pages, $21.99

Time was when death, like the savage, was noble. In A Social History of Dying, Allan Kellehear, a sociologist at England's University of Bath, extols the "good" peasant death, in which the dying are surrounded by friends and family at home. Some of us, Kellehear notes, might still long for the realization of this Dickensian fantasy at our own leave-taking.

SAVANNAH, Georgia: The 1983 Jaguar XJS that antiques dealer Jim Williams parked on an oriental rug at his Savannah mansion played bit parts in the book and movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."  Now Dorothy Kingery, Williams' sister who has inherited his estate since he died in 1990, hopes the green sports car's brush with fame will fetch it a fat price at auction on ebay.

Cincinnati- Hundreds of families of people whose organs were taken without permission during autopsies performed by the Hamilton County coroner's office may be eligible to share in a $6 million settlement. U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith has tentatively approved a settlement reached in 2005, and final approval could come after a hearing in August.

BRENTWOOD — Dr. Putnam Breed is “nothing but a common thief,” said Jane McCarthy prior to Breed’s Wednesday sentencing to six months in prison for convictions on charges related to his signing cremation certificates without viewing the bodies of the deceased. Breed’s sentence is for convictions on nine counts of fraudulent handling of recordable writings, three theft by deception charges and a count of theft by unauthorized taking — all class B felonies, said Rockingham County Attorney Jim Reams.