The House M.D. series finale is titled “Everybody Dies.”
The episode aired on May 21, 2012, and concludes the show’s eight-season run. Its title echoes the series’ recurring concern with mortality while also serving as a thematic counterpoint to the medical cases that House and his colleagues investigate.
In the story, House faces the possibility of a prison sentence and a collapsing professional life. He ultimately stages his death by manipulating the identification of a burned body, allowing him to abandon his public identity. House then reveals the truth to James Wilson, who is facing terminal cancer, so the two can spend Wilson’s remaining months together.
The title is sometimes confused with “Help Me,” the seventh-season finale, or “Broken,” the two-part sixth-season premiere. Those episodes are important turning points, but neither is the final episode. “Everybody Dies” is the closing chapter of the original series.