Editing Carl Barks (section)

===Final days and death===
Barks spent his final years in a new home in [[Grants Pass, Oregon]], which he and Garé, who died in 1993, had built next door to their original home. In July 1999, he was diagnosed with [[chronic lymphocytic leukemia]], a form of cancer arising from the [[white blood cell]]s in the [[bone marrow]], for which he received oral [[chemotherapy]]. However, as the disease progressed, causing him great discomfort, the ailing Barks decided to stop receiving treatment in June 2000.<ref>[http://www.cbarks.dk/thelastlettersb.htm Letter from caregiver Serene Hunicke (June 8, 2000)]. Carl Barks.dk. Retrieved on March 6, 2016.</ref> In spite of his terminal condition, Barks remained, according to caregiver Serene Hunicke, "funny up to the end".

The year before, Barks had told the university professor [[Donald Ault]]:

<blockquote>I have no apprehension, no fear of death. I do not believe in an afterlife.&nbsp;... I think of death as total peace. You're beyond the clutches of all those who would crush you.{{sfn|Ault|2003|page=222}}</blockquote>

On August 25, 2000, shortly after midnight, Carl Barks died quietly in his sleep at the age of 99.{{sfn|Ault|2003|page=xlvi}} He was interred in Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Grants Pass, beside Garé's grave.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbarks.dk/thefarewellgravesite.htm |title=THE GRAVESITE {{!}} Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Grants Pass|website= www.cbarks.dk|accessdate= March 6, 2016}}</ref>