Editing Vincent van Gogh (section)

===Death===
{{Main|Death of Vincent van Gogh|Auberge Ravoux|Vincent van Gogh's health}}
[[File:Vincent-van-gogh-echo-pontoisien-august7-1890.jpg|thumb|Article on Van Gogh's death from ''L'Écho Pontoisien'', 7 August 1890|alt=Photograph of a 19th-century newspaper announcement of someone's death]]

On 27 July 1890 (Sunday), aged 37, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a [[revolver]].{{sfnp|Sweetman|1990|loc= 342–343}} The shooting may have taken place in the wheat field in which he had been painting, or in a local barn.{{sfnp|Walther|Metzger|1994|loc= 669}} The bullet was deflected by a rib and passed through his chest without doing apparent damage to internal organs – possibly stopped by his spine. He was able to walk back to the [[Auberge Ravoux]], where he was attended to by two doctors. One of them, Dr Gachet, had served as a war surgeon in the 1870 [[Franco-Prussian War]] and had extensive knowledge of gunshots. Vincent was possibly attended to during the night by Dr Gachet's son Paul Louis Gachet and the innkeeper, Arthur Ravoux. The following morning, Theo rushed to his brother's side, finding him in good spirits but within hours Vincent's health began to fail, suffering from an infection resulting from the wound. He died in the early hours of Tuesday, 29 July. According to Theo, Vincent's last words were: "The sadness will last forever".{{refn|{{harvp|Sweetman|1990|loc= 342–343}}; {{harvp|Hulsker|1980|loc=480–483.}}}}<ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5703399s "La misère ne finira jamais", Études, 1947, p. 9] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122024925/http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5703399s |date=22 November 2016 }}, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Philosophie, histoire, sciences de l'homme, D-33939</ref><ref>"La tristesse durera toujours", François-Bernard Michel, ''La face humaine de Vincent Van Gogh'', Grasset, 3 November 1999, {{ISBN|978-2-246-58959-4}}</ref><ref name="TvGletter">{{cite web |first1= Theodorus |last1= van Gogh |title= Letter from Theo van Gogh to Elisabeth van Gogh Paris, 5 August 1890 |publisher= Webexhibits.org |access-date= 28 April 2015 |url= http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm |quote= he said, "La tristesse durera toujours" [The sadness will last forever] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110624060011/http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm |archive-date= 24 June 2011 |url-status= live }}</ref>

[[File:Graves of Vincent and Théodore Van Gogh.jpg|thumb|Vincent and Theo's graves at [[Auvers-sur-Oise]] Cemetery|alt=Two graves and two gravestones side by side; heading behind a bed of green leaves, bearing the remains of Vincent and Theo van Gogh, where they lie in the cemetery of Auvers-sur-Oise. The stone to the left bears the inscription: ''Ici Repose Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)'' and the stone to the right reads: ''Ici Repose Theodore van Gogh (1857–1891)'']]
Van Gogh was buried on 30 July, in the municipal cemetery of Auvers-sur-Oise. The funeral was attended by Theo van Gogh, [[Andries Bonger]], [[Charles Laval]], [[Lucien Pissarro]], Émile Bernard, Julien Tanguy and Paul Gachet, among twenty family members, friends and locals. Theo suffered from [[syphilis]], and his health began to decline further after his brother's death. Weak and unable to come to terms with Vincent's absence, he died on 25 January 1891 at [[Den Dolder]] and was buried in Utrecht.{{refn|{{harvp|Hayden|2003|loc=152}}; {{harvp|Van der Veen|Knapp|2010|loc=260–264.}}}} In 1914, [[Johanna van Gogh-Bonger]] had Theo's body [[exhumation|exhumed]] and moved from Utrecht to be re-buried alongside Vincent's at Auvers-sur-Oise.{{sfnp|Sweetman|1990|loc= 367}}

There have been numerous debates as to the nature of [[Vincent van Gogh's health|Van Gogh's illness]] and its effect on his work, and many [[retrospective diagnosis|retrospective diagnoses]] have been proposed. The consensus is that Van Gogh had an episodic condition with periods of normal functioning.{{sfnp|Arnold|2004}} Perry was the first to suggest [[bipolar disorder]] in 1947,{{sfnp|Perry|1947}} and this has been supported by the psychiatrists Hemphill and Blumer.{{sfnp|Hemphill|1961}}{{sfnp|Blumer|2002}} Biochemist Wilfred Arnold has countered that the symptoms are more consistent with [[acute intermittent porphyria]], noting that the popular link between bipolar disorder and creativity might be spurious.{{sfnp|Arnold|2004}} [[Temporal lobe epilepsy]] with bouts of depression has also been suggested.{{sfnp|Blumer|2002}} Whatever the diagnosis, his condition was likely worsened by malnutrition, overwork, insomnia and alcohol.{{sfnp|Blumer|2002}}