Editing Rudyard Kipling (section)

==Death==
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Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with less success than before. On the night of 12 January 1936, he suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. He underwent surgery, but died at [[Middlesex Hospital]] in London less than a week later on 18 January 1936, at the age of 70, of a [[perforated ulcer|perforated]] [[duodenal ulcer]].<ref name="Ricketts2000">{{cite book |author=Harry Ricketts |title=Rudyard Kipling: A Life |url=https://archive.org/details/rudyardkipling00harr|url-access=registration |access-date=18 July 2013 |year=2000 |publisher=Carroll & Graf |isbn=978-0-7867-0830-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/rudyardkipling00harr/page/388 388]–}}</ref><ref>Rudyard Kipling's Waltzing Ghost: The Literary Heritage of Brown's Hotel, paragraph 11, [[Sandra Jackson-Opoku]], Literary Traveler.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=5HnmpXgPiYPt0hHpduoYbg&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=15 November 2020|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS|archive-date=14 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814130541/https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=5HnmpXgPiYPt0hHpduoYbg&scan=1|url-status=live}}</ref> Kipling's body lay in state in the [[Fitzrovia Chapel]], part of Middlesex Hospital, after his death, and is commemorated with a plaque near the altar. His death had previously been [[List of premature obituaries|incorrectly announced]] in a magazine, to which he wrote, "I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers."<ref>Chernega, Carol (2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=77YpJytZXhUC&pg=PA90 ''A Dream House: Exploring the Literary Homes of England'']. p. 90. Dog Ear Publishing. {{ISBN|1457502461}}.</ref>

The pallbearers at the funeral included Kipling's cousin, Prime Minister [[Stanley Baldwin]], and the marble casket was covered by a [[Union Jack]].<ref name="westminster">[http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/rudyard-kipling "History – Rudyard Kipling"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817071938/http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/rudyard-kipling |date=17 August 2012 }}. Westminster abbey.org.</ref> Kipling was cremated at [[Golders Green Crematorium]] in north-west London, and his ashes interred at [[Poets' Corner]], part of the south transept of [[Westminster Abbey]], next to the graves of [[Charles Dickens]] and [[Thomas Hardy]].<ref name="westminster" /> Kipling's will was proven on 6 April, with his estate valued at £168,141 2s. 11d. (roughly equivalent to £{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|168141|1936|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|UK}}{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}}).<ref name="probate">{{cite web |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Kipling&yearOfDeath=1936&page=2#calendar |title=Kipling, Rudyard |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=1936 |website=probatesearchservice.gov |publisher=UK Government |access-date=11 August 2019 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126101138/https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Kipling&yearOfDeath=1936&page=2#calendar |url-status=live }}</ref>