Editing Elizabeth Taylor (section)

===Illness and death===
[[File:Elizabeth Taylor Walk of Fame.jpg|thumb|left|Taylor's star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in the days following her death in 2011]]

Taylor struggled with health problems for most of her life.{{r|woo20110324}} She was born with [[scoliosis]]<ref name="teldeath">{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/8401217/Elizabeth-Taylor-history-of-health-problems.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/8401217/Elizabeth-Taylor-history-of-health-problems.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Elizabeth Taylor: history of health problems |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=March 23, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and broke her back while filming ''National Velvet'' in 1944.<ref name=Walker />{{rp|40–47}} The fracture went undetected for several years, although it caused her chronic back problems.<ref name=Walker />{{rp|40–47}} In 1956, she underwent an operation in which some of her spinal discs were removed and replaced with donated bone.<ref name=Walker />{{rp|175}} Taylor was also prone to other illnesses and injuries, which often necessitated surgery; in 1961, she survived a near-fatal bout of pneumonia that required a tracheotomy.<ref name=Kashner />
She was [[Phage therapy|treated]] for the pneumonia with [[bacteriophage]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Twilley|first=Nicola|date=December 14, 2020|title=When a Virus Is the Cure|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/when-a-virus-is-the-cure|access-date=December 15, 2020|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-us|quote=Still, as late as 1961, phage therapy had some American adherents, including Elizabeth Taylor, who received a dose of staph bacteriophage when she developed near-fatal pneumonia during the filming of ''Cleopatra'' and needed an emergency tracheotomy.}}</ref>
In 1968 she underwent an emergency hysterectomy, which exacerbated her back problems and contributed to hip problems. Perhaps self-medicating, she was addicted to alcohol and prescription pain killers and tranquilizers. She was treated at the [[Betty Ford Center]] for seven weeks from December 1983 to January 1984, becoming the first celebrity to openly admit herself to the clinic.<ref name=Kashner />{{rp|424–425}} She relapsed later in the decade and entered rehabilitation again in 1988.<ref name=Walker />{{rp|366–368}} Taylor had gained weight by the 1970s, especially after her marriage to Senator John Warner, and published a diet book about her experiences, ''Elizabeth Takes Off'' (1988).<ref name="tanabe20110324">{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/click/stories/1103/elizabeth_taylors_washington_life.html | title=Elizabeth Taylor's Washington life |access-date=December 1, 2018 |last=Tanabe |first=Karin |date=March 24, 2011 |work=[[Politico]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Aljean |last=Harmetz |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/20/garden/liz-taylor-at-55-thin-again-and-wiser.html |title=Liz Taylor at 55: Thin Again, and Wiser |work=The New York Times |date=January 20, 1988 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref> Taylor was a heavy smoker until she experienced a severe bout of pneumonia in 1990.<ref>{{cite book |last=Taraborrelli |first=J. Randy |title=Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor |year=2007 |page=432}}</ref>

Taylor's health increasingly declined during the last two decades of her life and she rarely attended public events after 1996.<ref name="teldeath" /> Taylor had serious bouts of pneumonia in 1990 and 2000,<ref name="advocate" /> two [[hip replacement surgery|hip replacement surgeries]] in the mid-1990s,{{r|woo20110324}} a surgery for a benign [[brain tumor]] in 1997,{{r|woo20110324}} and successful treatment for [[skin cancer]] in 2002.<ref name="teldeath" /> She used a wheelchair due to her back problems and was diagnosed with [[Heart failure|congestive heart failure]] in 2004.<ref name="BBCdeath">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-12833100 |title=Dame Elizabeth Taylor dies at the age of 79 |work=BBC News |date=March 23, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref><ref name="abc-death2">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Taylor dies aged 79 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-03-24/elizabeth-taylor-dies-aged-79/2644128 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |access-date=December 1, 2018 |date=March 24, 2011}}</ref> She died of the illness aged 79 on March 23, 2011, at [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]] in Los Angeles, six weeks after being hospitalized.<ref name="reutersdeath">{{cite news |last=Tourtellotte |first=Bob |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taylor/hollywood-legend-elizabeth-taylor-dies-at-79-idUSTRE72M3L120110324 |title=Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 |work=Reuters |date=March 23, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref> Her funeral took place the following day at the [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]] in [[Glendale, California]]. The service was a private [[bereavement in Judaism|Jewish ceremony]] presided by [[Rabbi]] [[Jerome Cutler]]. At Taylor's request, the ceremony began 15 minutes behind schedule, as, according to her representative, "She even wanted to be late for her own funeral."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/03/24/taylor.funeral/ |title=Private burial service held for Elizabeth Taylor |date=March 25, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018 |publisher=CNN |archive-date=November 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129051906/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/03/24/taylor.funeral/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was entombed in the cemetery's Great Mausoleum.<ref>{{cite news |first=Ewen |last=MacAskill |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/25/elizabeth-taylor-funeral-la-celebrity |title=Elizabeth Taylor's funeral takes place in LA's celebrity cemetery |work=The Guardian |date=March 25, 2011 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref>