Editing Edmund Burke (section)

==Illness and death==
For more than a year prior to his death, Burke knew that his stomach was "irrecoverably ruind".<ref name="ODNB"/> He is believed to have had stomach cancer.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.artwarefineart.com/gallery/portrait-jane-mary-burke-nee-nugent-1734-1812|title=Portrait of Jane Mary Burke , nee Nugent 1734–1812 &#124; Artware Fine Art|website=www.artwarefineart.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/a655185cc90a68551738a8db2fcb0aa3/1?cbl=1818415&pq-origsite=gscholar|title=A Note on the Death of Edmund Burke [with Irving F. Kanner] |website=www.proquest.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/30071365|title=Edmund Burke and the Conservative Imagination|author=Archibald, Douglas|year=1995|journal=Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr|volume=10|pages=127–147|doi=10.3828/eci.1995.8 |jstor=30071365}}</ref>

After hearing that Burke was nearing death, Fox wrote to Mrs. Burke enquiring after him. Fox received the reply the next day:
<blockquote>Mrs. Burke presents her compliments to Mr. Fox, and thanks him for his obliging inquiries. Mrs. Burke communicated his letter to Mr. Burke, and by his desire has to inform Mr. Fox that it has cost Mr. Burke the most heart-felt pain to obey the stern voice of his duty in rending asunder a long friendship, but that he deemed this sacrifice necessary; that his principles continue the same; and that in whatever of life may yet remain to him, he conceives that he must live for others and not for himself. Mr. Burke is convinced that the principles which he has endeavoured to maintain are necessary to the welfare and dignity of his country, and that these principles can be enforced only by the general persuasion of his sincerity.<ref>Prior, p. 456</ref></blockquote>

Burke died in [[Beaconsfield]], Buckinghamshire, on 9 July 1797<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cavendish |first=Richard |date=1997-07-07 |title=Edmund Burke, Political Writer and Philosopher Dies |url=https://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/edmund-burke-political-writer-and-philosopher-dies |magazine=History Today |volume=47 |issue=7 |access-date=2018-07-07 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> and was buried there alongside his son and brother.