Editing Joan Sims (section)

==Death==
Sims was admitted to hospital in November 2000, and complications of a routine operation caused her to slip into a coma. Her lifelong friend and stand-in, Norah Holland<ref>[http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/266242.Tribute_to_a_studio_s_dream/ "Tribute to a studio's dream"]. ''Bucks Free Press'' (29 January 2003). Retrieved 9 November 2014.</ref> spoke of the doctors' amazement at her strength and courage throughout her final illness.<ref name="Unforgettable">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aiiwrSdmGs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517221600/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aiiwrSdmGs|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 May 2016|title=Joan Sims - YouTube|website = [[YouTube]]|date=17 May 2016|access-date=20 August 2020}}</ref>

On 27 June 2001, ten minutes before she died, Holland spoke to her gently about [[Kenneth Williams]], [[Hattie Jacques]] and their time on the ''Carry On'' films.<ref name="Unforgettable" /> Sims died from liver failure and diverticulitis, with diabetes and [[chronic obstructive pulmonary disease|COPD]] cited as contributory factors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmnav.co.uk/2011/10/04/joan-sims/|title=Joan Sims - FilmNav|website=Filmnav.co.uk|access-date=24 October 2018|archive-date=25 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025032827/http://www.filmnav.co.uk/2011/10/04/joan-sims/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>GRO Register of Deaths: 2002, Kensington and Chelsea - Irene Joan M. Sims.</ref> She was cremated at [[Putney Vale Crematorium]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtBiAwAAQBAJ&q=joan+sims+Putney+Vale&pg=PT146|title=The Archaeology of Hollywood: Traces of the Golden Age|first=Paul|last=Bahn|date=14 April 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780759123793|access-date=20 August 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref> and her ashes scattered in the grounds there.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHi9DAAAQBAJ&q=joan+sims+Putney+Vale&pg=PA248|title=Who's Buried Where in London|first=Peter|last=Matthews|date=23 March 2017|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781784422011|access-date=20 August 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref>

Her authorised biography, ''Too Happy A Face'', by Andrew Ross, was published in 2014.