Death
During a 2002 interview, Somers denied rumors that she had suffered from cancer. She would reiterate that point in future interviews. Somers had a naturally husky voice that might have caused the misperception that she suffered from a throat ailment.
Somers died on the morning of September 15, 2007 at her home in Westport, Connecticut. Her son Adam gave the cause of her death as stomach and colon cancer, which first developed in 2004 but was held in remission until August 2007. She was survived by her husband, Klugman, and their two sons. Her daughter, Leslie, from Somers' first marriage, died in 2003 from lung cancer.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“For in the word death
There is nothing to grasp; nothing to catch or claim;
Nothing to adapt the skill of the heart to, skill
In surviving, for death it cannot survive,
Only resign the irrecoverable keys.
The wave falters and drowns. The coulter of joy
Breaks. The harrow of death
Depends. And there are thrown up waves.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“half-way up the hill, I see the Past
Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights,—
A city in the twilight dim and vast,
With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights,—
And hear above me on the autumnal blast
The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)