Editing Sigmund Freud (section)

===Death===
[[File:Freud's ashes in Golder's Green Columbarium.JPG|thumb|upright|Freud's ashes in the [[Freud Corner (Golders Green Crematorium)|"Freud Corner"]] at [[Golders Green Crematorium]], London]]
By mid-September 1939, Freud's [[jaw cancer|cancer of the jaw]] was causing him increasingly severe pain and had been declared inoperable. The last book he read, [[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]]'s ''[[La Peau de chagrin]]'', prompted reflections on his own increasing frailty, and a few days later he turned to his doctor, friend, and fellow refugee, [[Max Schur]], reminding him that they had previously discussed the terminal stages of his illness: "Schur, you remember our 'contract' not to leave me in the lurch when the time had come. Now it is nothing but torture and makes no sense." When Schur replied that he had not forgotten, Freud said, "I thank you," and then, "Talk it over with Anna, and if she thinks it's right, then make an end of it." Anna Freud wanted to postpone her father's death, but Schur convinced her it was pointless to keep him alive; on 21 and 22 September, he administered doses of morphine that resulted in Freud's death at around 3&nbsp;a.m. on 23&nbsp;September 1939.<ref>Gay 2006, pp. 650–51</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Index entry |url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=1i7bxu%2FFMHIpo2b6nEloZg&scan=1 |access-date=2 September 2016 |website=FreeBMD |publisher=ONS}}</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1939/09/24/archives/dr-sigmund-freud-dies-in-exile-at-83-founder-of-psychoanalysis.html ''The New York Times'' obituary, September 23, 1939].</ref> However, discrepancies in the accounts Schur gave of his role in Freud's final hours led to inconsistencies between Freud's main biographers. A revised account proposes that Schur was absent from Freud's deathbed when a third and final dose of morphine was administered by Dr. Josephine Stross, a colleague of Anna Freud, leading to Freud's death at around midnight on 23 September 1939.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lacoursiere |first=Roy B. |year=2008 |title=Freud's Death: Historical Truth and Biographical Fictions |journal=American Imago |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=107–28 |doi=10.1353/aim.0.0003 |s2cid=170247119}}</ref>

Three days after his death, Freud's body was cremated at [[Golders Green Crematorium]], with [[Harrods]] acting as funeral directors, on the instructions of his son, Ernst.<ref name="sydney1">{{Cite web |title=Sigmund Freud's Collection: An Archaeology of the Mind |url=http://sydney.edu.au/museums/publications/catalogues/freud-catalogue.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222133332/http://sydney.edu.au/museums/publications/catalogues/freud-catalogue.pdf |archive-date=22 February 2014 |access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref> Funeral orations were given by Ernest Jones and the Austrian author [[Stefan Zweig]]. Freud's ashes were later placed in [[Freud Corner (Golders Green Crematorium)|a corner of the crematorium's Ernest George Columbarium]] on a plinth designed by his son, Ernst,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Welter |first=Volker M |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j9HFNKIU44wC&q=golders+green+columbarium+freud&pg=PA205 |title=Ernst L. Freud, Architect |date=1 October 2011 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-0-85745-234-4}}</ref> in a sealed<ref name=sydney1/> [[Pottery of ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[bell krater]] painted with [[Dionysus|Dionysian scenes]] that Freud had received as a gift from Marie Bonaparte, and which he had kept in his study in Vienna for many years. After his wife, Martha, died in 1951, her ashes were also placed in the urn.<ref>Burke, Janine ''The Sphinx at the Table: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection and the Development of Psychoanalysis'', New York: Walker and Co. 2006, p. 340.</ref>