Editing George Harrison (section)

=== Death: 2001 ===
In May 2001, it was revealed that Harrison had undergone an operation to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs,<ref>{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709050511/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/george-harrison-undergoes-surgery-for-cancer-683674.html|archive-date=9 July 2010|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/george-harrison-undergoes-surgery-for-cancer-683674.html |title=George Harrison undergoes surgery for cancer|date=4 May 2001|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=29 December 2012|last=Jury|url-status=dead|first=Louise}}</ref> and in July, it was reported that he was being treated for a [[brain tumor|brain tumour]] at a clinic in Switzerland.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1333302/George-Harrison-being-treated-in-cancer-clinic.html |title=George Harrison being treated in cancer clinic|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=9 July 2001|access-date=27 December 2008|first1=Fiona|last1=Fleck|first2=Sandra|last2=Laville|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080524042854/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1333302/George-Harrison-being-treated-in-cancer-clinic.html|archive-date=24 May 2008}}</ref> While in Switzerland, Starr visited him but had to cut short his stay to travel to Boston, where his daughter was undergoing emergency brain surgery. Harrison, who was very weak, quipped: "Do you want me to come with you?"<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Thorpe|first1=Vanessa|last2=Dowell|first2=Ben|title=George Harrison and his women – Martin Scorsese's new documentary reveals the candid truth|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/04/beatles-george-harrison-martin-scorsese|newspaper=The Guardian|date=3 September 2011|access-date=22 January 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228210338/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/04/beatles-george-harrison-martin-scorsese|archive-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> In November 2001, he began radiotherapy at [[Staten Island University Hospital]] in New York City for [[lung cancer|non–small cell lung cancer]] that had [[metastasis|spread]] to his brain.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117128&page=1|last=Carpenter|first=Jeff|title=George Harrison Receives Radiation Treatment|date=9 November 2001|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|access-date=2 April 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604101323/https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117128&page=1|archive-date=4 June 2011}}</ref> When the news was made public, Harrison, who would die within the month, bemoaned his physician's breach of privacy, and his estate later claimed damages.{{refn|group=nb|Harrison's estate complained that during a round of experimental radiotherapy at Staten Island University Hospital, the [[oncology|oncologist]] Dr Gilbert Lederman repeatedly revealed Harrison's confidential medical information during television interviews and forced him to autograph a guitar.{{sfn|Doggett|2009|pp=330–331}}<ref>[http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/beatles/ghldrmn10604cmp.pdf Civil Action CV040033 (NGG)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918034406/http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/beatles/ghldrmn10604cmp.pdf|date=18 September 2017}} (PDF), Complaint, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, The Estate of George Harrison v Gilbert Lederman. The allegations about the autograph appear on page 10 of the Complaint.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/health/features/10817/|title=The Doctor Can't Help Himself|newspaper=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=21 May 2005|access-date=31 May 2010|last=Goldman|first=Andrew|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090820070223/http://nymag.com/nymetro/health/features/10817|archive-date=20 August 2009}}</ref>{{sfn|Doggett|2009|p=331}} The suit was ultimately [[legal settlement|settled out of court]] under the condition that the guitar be "disposed of".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/17/nyregion/harrison-estate-settles-suit-over-guitar-autographed-by-dying-beatle.html|title=Harrison Estate Settles Suit Over Guitar Autographed by Dying Beatle|newspaper=The New York Times|date=17 January 2004|access-date=31 May 2010|last=Glaberson|first=William|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505121639/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/17/nyregion/harrison-estate-settles-suit-over-guitar-autographed-by-dying-beatle.html|archive-date=5 May 2013}}</ref>}}

On 29 November 2001, Harrison died at a property belonging to McCartney, on Heather Road in [[Beverly Hills, California]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fleming|first=E.J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hi-SCgAAQBAJ&dq=george+harrison+died+heather&pg=PA125|title=Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites|publisher=McFarland|year=2015|isbn=978-0786496440|pages=125|access-date=8 December 2021|archive-date=22 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422080817/https://books.google.com/books?id=hi-SCgAAQBAJ&dq=george+harrison+died+heather&pg=PA125|url-status=live}}</ref> He was 58 years old.<ref>{{harvnb|Harry|2003|p=119}}: Harrison's date of death</ref>{{sfn|Norman|2017|p=733}} He died in the company of Olivia, Dhani, Shankar and the latter's wife Sukanya and daughter [[Anoushka Shankar|Anoushka]], and Hare Krishna devotees Shyamasundar Das and [[Mukunda Goswami]], who chanted verses from the ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]''.{{sfn|Tillery|2011|p=148}} His final message to the world, as relayed in a statement by Olivia and Dhani, was: "Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another."{{sfn|Kahn|2020|p=543}}{{refn|group=nb|Another of his last messages was to actor and comedian [[Mike Myers]] on the set of ''[[Austin Powers in Goldmember]]''. Harrison thanked Myers for the [[Austin Powers|''Austin Powers'' films]] and said that he had searched throughout Europe before finding his bedside companion, a [[Dr. Evil]] doll.{{sfn|Kahn|2020|pp=542–43}}}} He was [[Cremation|cremated]] at [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]], and his funeral was held at the [[Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine]] in [[Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles|Pacific Palisades, California]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Inner-peace movement: ''Many in L.A. turn to Eastern spiritualism to be 'interior designers' of their minds. It's a tonic for frenzied lives''|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/mar/25/news/wk-cover25/2|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|last=O'Connor|first=Anne-Marie|date=25 March 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305212746/http://articles.latimes.com/2004/mar/25/news/wk-cover25/2|archive-date=5 March 2016|access-date=2 November 2015}}</ref> His close family scattered his ashes according to [[Ganga in Hinduism|Hindu tradition]] in a private ceremony in the [[Ganges]] and [[Yamuna]] rivers near [[Varanasi]], India.<ref>{{harvnb|Lavezzoli|2006|p=198}}; {{harvnb|Doggett|2009|p=332}}</ref> He left almost £100&nbsp;million in his will.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2525443.stm|title=Harrison leaves £99m will|quote=Harrison left £99,226,700, reduced to £98,916,400 after expenses, a High Court spokeswoman confirmed.|work=BBC News|date=29 November 2002|access-date=19 September 2009|archive-date=22 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422080751/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2525443.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>