 As mentioned in the beginning of the film, the previous films' narrator Dr. Gröss is no longer present in "Faces of Death IV".This film is narrated by "Dr. Louis Flellis", played by James B. Schwartz, who explains that Dr. Gröss apparently became so anxious trying to decide his own fate after watching so many other people die, that he ended up committing suicide.After Dr. Gröss was cremated, the only evidence that he was ever alive at all was the urn full of ashes that sit on the desk of the new narrator.