Death
He lived on Roosevelt Island. In 2003, he was hospitalized for an angioplasty, and complications from the surgery led to an emergency bypass and the amputation of his right leg below the knee and all the toes on his left foot. He died on February 3, 2006, of natural causes in a hospital. He was cremated, and his funeral was held at Riverside Church in New York City. His favorite gospel music was played, and his remains were buried on February 18, 2006 in his favorite cigar box.
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“A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep, careless, reckless, and fearless of what’s past, present, or to come; insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)