"Everybody Dies" is the final episode of the American medical drama television series House, and aired on Fox in the United States on May 21, 2012.

[3] It featured cameos from multiple characters from previous seasons, including Remy "Thirteen" Hadley, Allison Cameron, Martha Masters, Dominika Petrova, and Stacy Warner, as well as Lawrence Kutner and Amber Volakis, who both died in previous seasons but appeared as hallucinations.

[4] After waking up next to a dead body in an abandoned building that is slowly burning down, House starts to hallucinate about his former and deceased colleagues and realizes he is arguing with his own subconscious about whether he should try to escape or die in the fire.

Flashbacks show that he took up the case of Oliver, a heroin addict, in the days prior to waking up in the abandoned building.

He is interrupted by a text message from an unknown number that reads "SHUT UP YOU IDIOT" and leaves the funeral, finding House waiting at his home.

[5] Anne Dudek, Sela Ward, and Andre Braugher also reprised their previous roles as Amber, Stacy Warner, and Dr. Nolan respectively.

The writers had considered killing House at one point, but settled for an ending where Wilson got sick, though the storyline was decided on at the beginning of the season.

[8] In interviews after the episode aired, Shore said that the fire was caused by Oliver falling asleep while smoking, and House had managed to escape the building in the few seconds between the collapse and the explosion.

Lisa Palmer of TV Fanatic gave the finale an excellent rating of 4.8/5 and stated that "I feel satisfaction at this ending...

I can move on from this show without hesitation",[16] similar to Morgan Jeffery of Digital Spy, who stated "'Everybody Dies' probably won't go down in TV history as one of the great series finales, but it does get a hell of a lot right.

"[18] Similar sentiments were shared by Vulture's Margaret Lyons who wrote: "More than a hospital drama or a character piece or anything else, House is a complex meditation on misery, but there is a line between 'enlightened cynicism' and 'misery-entropy'.

Online wrote: "Yep, House faked his own death to avoid prison and spend time with his best friend before he died.

"[20] Entertainment Weekly ranked House faking his death at number three for "Single Most Clever Twist" for the 2012 TV Season Finale Awards.