Editing Waylon Jennings (section)

== Illness and death ==
[[File:Mesa-City of Mesa Cemetery-Waylon Jennings.JPG|thumb|upright|Grave of Waylon Jennings]]
Decades of smoking and drug use took a large toll on Jennings's health in addition to obesity and a poor diet, which resulted in his developing [[Type 2 diabetes]]. In 1988, four years after quitting cocaine, he ended his six-pack-a-day smoking habit.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20063513,00.html |title=The Outlaw in Love |magazine=People |access-date=July 3, 2013}}</ref> That same year, he underwent [[heart bypass surgery]].{{sfn|Jennings|Kaye|1996|p=322}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/12/13/Jennings-alert-after-heart-bypass-surgery/4369597992400/|title=Jennings alert after heart bypass surgery}}</ref> By 2000, his diabetes worsened, and the pain reduced his mobility to the point where he was forced to end most touring.{{sfn|Birk|2005|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=db7uwE2_lJ8C&dq=Cowboys%2C%20Sisters%2C%20Rascals%20and%20Dirt%20waylon%20jennings&pg=PA72 72]}} That same year, he underwent surgery to improve his left leg's blood circulation.<ref name="Rolling Stone" /> In December 2001, his left foot was amputated at a hospital in Phoenix.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 5, 2002 |title=Doctors Amputate Jennings' Left Foot |url=https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Doctors-Amputate-Jennings-Left-Foot-7323521.php |access-date=May 26, 2023 |website=Huron Daily Tribune |language=en-US |archive-date=May 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526163802/https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Doctors-Amputate-Jennings-Left-Foot-7323521.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On February 13, 2002, Jennings died in his sleep from complications of diabetes at his home in [[Chandler, Arizona]], aged 64.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 13, 2002 |title=Waylon Jennings, Country Singer, Dies at 64 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/obituaries/waylon-jennings-country-singer-dies-at-64.html |access-date=May 26, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/02/14/country-star-waylon-jennings-dies-at-64/fd38abf5-07ed-46a3-b771-846bad885662/|title=Country Star Waylon Jennings Dies at 64|newspaper=Washington Post|date=February 14, 2002}}</ref> He was buried in the [[City of Mesa Cemetery]] in nearby [[Mesa, Arizona|Mesa]].<ref>{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=Waylon Jennings laid to rest at private ceremony|newspaper=Arizona Daily Sun|date=February 16, 2002 |volume=56|number=120|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77033356/|page=A-4|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 4, 2021}} {{open access}}</ref> At his memorial service on February 15, Jessi Colter sang "Storms Never Last".{{sfn|Birk|2005|p= [https://books.google.com/books?id=db7uwE2_lJ8C&dq=Cowboys%2C%20Sisters%2C%20Rascals%20and%20Dirt%20waylon%20jennings&pg=PA72 72]}}