Quantum mechanics - how can the energy be complex?

In section 134 of Vol. 3 (Quantum Mechanics), Landau and Lifshitz make the energy complex in order to describe a particle that can decay:

$$ E = E_0 - \frac{1}{2}i \Gamma. $$

The propagator $U(t) = \exp(-i H t)$ then makes the wavefunction die exponentially with time. But also, $H$ is non-Hermitian.

My question: Do we have to modify the basic postulates of quantum mechanics (as described by Shankar, say, or the earlier sections of Landau & Lifshitz) to describe unstable particles?