<P> Following Sheen 's dismissal from the series in March 2011 , the character was killed off in the ninth season , having supposedly been struck by a train while on vacation in Paris . Charlie 's spirit , portrayed by Kathy Bates , returns as a hallucination to Alan , revealing that he is living in Hell as a ghost trapped in a woman 's body . This storyline is later retroactively changed by the series finale , `` Of Course He 's Dead , '' in which Rose reveals that Charlie is , in fact , alive ( albeit brainwashed ) and has been kept prisoner in the basement of a house that she purchased in Sherman Oaks after returning to the United States . He escapes from Rose 's basement and returns to the beach house . As he rings the doorbell , a piano that is being transported by helicopter falls from the sky , killing him . </P>
<P> Following Sheen 's dismissal from the series in March 2011 , the character was killed off in the ninth season , having supposedly been struck by a train while on vacation in Paris . Charlie 's spirit , portrayed by Kathy Bates , returns as a hallucination to Alan , revealing that he is living in Hell as a ghost trapped in a woman 's body . This storyline is later retroactively changed by the series finale , `` Of Course He 's Dead , '' in which Rose reveals that Charlie is , in fact , alive ( albeit brainwashed ) and has been kept prisoner in the basement of a house that she purchased in Sherman Oaks after returning to the United States . He escapes from Rose 's basement and returns to the beach house . As he rings the doorbell , a piano that is being transported by helicopter falls from the sky , killing him . </P>
how did charlie die in two and half
how did charlie die in two and half
a piano that is being transported by helicopter falls from the sky , killing him
a piano that is being transported by helicopter falls from the sky , killing him