Here's another article stating that fat cells do die.

Also since other cells die and are absorbed by the body I'm going to assume that when fat cells die, they are absorbed into the body also.

German reasearch on this stuff is so far ahead of the US.

http://verlag.hanshuber.com/Zeitsch.../00/tu0008.html
http://verlag.hanshuber.com/Zeitsch...008.html#tu0008