Editing Alexander Graham Bell (section)

==Death==
Bell died of complications arising from [[diabetes]] on August 2, 1922, at his private estate in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, at age 75.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gray |first=Charlotte |title=Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell |url={{google books|ujlCgf1uSJIC|plainurl=yes|page=151}} |year=2006 |publisher=Arcade |location=New York |page=419 |isbn=978-1-55970-809-8 }}</ref> Bell had also been affected by [[pernicious anemia]].{{sfn|Gray|2006|p=418}} His last view of the land he had inhabited was by moonlight on his mountain estate at 2:00&nbsp;a.m.{{refn|In the last years of his life, as his final projects wound down, Bell and his wife, their extended family and friends, lived exclusively at their beloved Beinn Bhreagh.{{sfn|Bethune|2009|p=95}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Duffy |first=Andrew |title=The Silver Dart sputtered into history |url=http://www2.canada.com/news/national/canada+flight/1319873/story.html?id=1319873 |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |date=February 23, 2009 |access-date=September 18, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713175706/http://www2.canada.com/news/national/canada+flight/1319873/story.html?id=1319873 |archive-date=July 13, 2015  }}.</ref>|group=N}}{{sfn|Bethune|2009|p=119}}{{refn|From {{harvp|Bethune|2009|p=119}}: "[his end came] at 2:00&nbsp;am... His wife, Mabel, daughter Daisy, and son-in-law David Fairchild had gathered around him. His last view was of the moon rising above the mountain he loved".|group=N}} While tending to him after his long illness, Mabel, his wife, whispered, "Don't leave me." By way of reply, Bell signed "no...", lost consciousness, and died shortly after.<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/08/03/99050024.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/08/03/99050024.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Dr. Bell, Inventor of Telephone, Dies |work=The New York Times |date=August 3, 1922 |access-date=March 3, 2009}}</ref>{{sfn|Bruce|1990|p=491}}

On learning of Bell's death, the [[Prime Minister of Canada|Canadian Prime Minister]], [[William Lyon Mackenzie King|Mackenzie King]], cabled Mrs. Bell, saying:<ref name="NYTimes"/>
{{blockquote|My colleagues in the Government join with me in expressing to you our sense of the world's loss in the death of your distinguished husband. It will ever be a source of pride to our country that the great invention, with which his name is immortally associated, is a part of its history. On the behalf of the citizens of Canada, may I extend to you an expression of our combined gratitude and sympathy.}}

Bell's coffin was constructed of Beinn Bhreagh pine by his laboratory staff, lined with the same red silk fabric used in his tetrahedral kite experiments. To help celebrate his life, his wife asked guests not to wear black (the traditional funeral colour) while attending his service, during which soloist Jean MacDonald sang a verse of [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s "Requiem":{{sfn|Bethune|2009|pp=119–120}}

{{poemquote|Under a wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die
And I laid me down with a will.}}

Upon the conclusion of Bell's funeral, for one minute at 6:25&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time,<ref>{{cite book |last=Pasachoff |first=Naomi |date=1996 |title=Alexander Graham Bell: Making Connections |url=https://archive.org/details/alexandergrahamb00pasa_0/page/130 |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/alexandergrahamb00pasa_0/page/130 130] |isbn=978-0-19-509908-9 |url-access=registration }}</ref> "every phone on the continent of North America was silenced in honor of the man who had given to mankind the means for direct communication at a distance".{{sfn|Bethune|2009|p=2}}{{sfn|Osborne|1943|pp=18–19}}

Alexander Graham Bell was buried atop [[Beinn Bhreagh]] mountain, on his estate where he had resided increasingly for the last 35 years of his life, overlooking [[Bras d'Or Lake]].<ref name="NYTimes"/> He was survived by his wife [[Mabel Gardiner Hubbard|Mabel]], his two daughters, Elsie May and Marian, and nine of his grandchildren<!-- Note: grandson Alexander Graham Bell Grosvenor had died seven years prior, as seen here: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/embgtree.html -->.<ref name="NYTimes"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0303.html |title=Dr. Bell, Inventor of Telephone, Dies |work=The New York Times |date=August 3, 1922 |access-date=July 21, 2007 |quote=Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, died at 2 o'clock this morning at Beinn Breagh, his estate near Baddeck}}</ref>