Editing Larry Norman (section)

==Coronary issues and death==
In February 1992, Norman suffered a nine-hour [[heart attack]] that resulted in permanent heart damage, leading to frequent hospitalizations in the years that followed.<ref name=growth/><ref name="through">{{Cite web |title=Larry Norman feature in VOG |url=http://www.onlyvisiting.com/larry/interviews/VOG/larry.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103231500/http://www.onlyvisiting.com/larry/interviews/VOG/larry.html |archive-date=January 3, 2015 |access-date=October 5, 2014 |website=Only Visiting.com}}</ref> By early 1995, Norman had been hospitalized thirteen times and had a [[defibrillator]] implant, which enabled him to perform occasional small concerts.<ref name=quizzed/><ref name=phydeaux1-1995/>

After a lengthy illness, Norman died on February 24, 2008, at the age of 60 at his home in [[Salem, Oregon]].<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/zPbRebcmwJw Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723051806/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPbRebcmwJw&gl=US&hl=en&amp;has_verified=1 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web |title=Larry Norman in the hospital greeting, February 2008 | date=February 23, 2008 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPbRebcmwJw |access-date=October 5, 2014 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Wittenburgdoor">{{Cite magazine |date=February 28, 2008 |title=Larry Norman: The Original Jesus Rocker Goes to Jesus |url=http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/original-jesus-rocker-goes-jesus |url-status=dead |magazine=The Wittenburg Door |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118211811/http://wittenburgdoor.com/original-jesus-rocker-goes-jesus |archive-date=January 18, 2010 |access-date=August 13, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Norman |first=Charles |date=February 24, 2008 |title=Larry Norman: April 8, 1947 – February 24, 2008 |work=Larry Norman.com |url=http://www.larrynorman.com/news/022408.html |url-status=dead |access-date=February 25, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807113939/http://www.larrynorman.com/news/022408.html |archive-date=August 7, 2008}}</ref> The previous day he had posted on his website:

<blockquote>I feel like a prize in a box of [[Cracker Jack]]s with God's hand reaching down to pick me up. I have been under medical care for months. My wounds are getting bigger. I have trouble breathing. I am ready to fly home. I won't be here much longer. I can't do anything about it. My heart is too weak. I want to say goodbye to everyone ... I want to say I love you. I'd like to push back the darkness with my bravest effort ... Goodbye, farewell, we will meet again.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 25, 2008 |title=Larry Norman, 'father of Christian rock music,' passes away in Salem at age 60 |work=[[Statesman Journal]] |url=http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080225/UPDATE/80225031 |access-date=March 26, 2008}} {{dead link |date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref></blockquote>

Following a public memorial on March 1 at the Church on the Hill in [[Turner, Oregon]], Norman was buried in Salem's [[City View Cemetery]]. His tombstone reads: "Larry Norman / Evangelist Without Portfolio / 1947–2008 / Bloodstained [[Israelite]]".<ref name="Wittenburgdoor" /><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Demy |first1=Timothy J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9YI2DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Evangelist+Without+Portfolio%22+larry+norman&pg=PA310 |title=Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture |last2=Ph.D |first2=Paul R. Shockley |date=September 21, 2017 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781610697743 |page=310 |via=Google Books}}</ref>