Editing Anthony Burgess (section)

=== Death ===
[[File:ABABBAABBA Monaco.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Burgess's grave marker at the [[Columbarium]] in Monaco's cemetery]]
Although Burgess wrote that he expected to "die somewhere in the Mediterranean lands, with an inaccurate obituary in the ''[[Nice-Matin]]'', unmourned, soon forgotten",<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://ilovemanchester.com/2015/09/09/anthony-burgess-manchesters-neglected-hero.aspx |title=Anthony Burgess – Manchester's Neglected Hero? |last=Fitzgerald |first=Laurence |date=9 September 2015 |work=I Love Manchester |access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref> he returned to die in [[Twickenham]], an outer suburb of London, where he owned a house. Burgess died on 22&nbsp;November 1993 from [[lung cancer]], at the [[St John's Wood|Hospital of St&nbsp;John & St&nbsp;Elizabeth]] in London. His ashes were inurned at the [[Monaco Cemetery]].

The epitaph on Burgess's marble memorial stone, reads: "Abba Abba", which means "Father, father" in Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew, and other Semitic languages and is pronounced by [[Christ]] during his agony in [[Gethsemane]] ({{bible|Mark|14:36|KJV}}) as he prays God to spare him. It is also [[Abba Abba|the title of Burgess's 22nd novel]], concerning the death of [[John Keats]]. Eulogies at his memorial service at [[St&nbsp;Paul's, Covent Garden]], London, in 1994 were delivered by the journalist [[Auberon Waugh]] and the novelist [[William Boyd (writer)|William Boyd]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} ''The Times'' obituary heralded the author as "a great moralist".<ref>"Anthony Burgess", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.</ref> His estate was worth US$3&nbsp;million and included a large European property portfolio of houses and apartments.<ref name=TelegDec07 />