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==Death== Brzezinski died at Inova Fairfax Hospital in [[Falls Church, Virginia]], on May 26, 2017, at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/26/zbigniew-brzezinski-dies-238879|title=Carter adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski dies at 89|publisher=Politico|date=May 26, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/zbigniew-brzezinski/528405/|title=Zbigniew Brzezinski|magazine=The Atlantic|date=May 26, 2017|author=James Fallows}}</ref> His funeral was held June 9 at the [[Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle (Washington, D.C.)|Cathedral of St. Matthew]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pogrzeb Zbigniewa Brzezińskiego odbędzie się 9 czerwca|url=http://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-ze-swiata,2/pogrzeb-zbigniewa-brzezinskiego-9-czerwca-w-waszyngtonie,745203.html|access-date=June 1, 2017|publisher=TVN24.pl|date=June 1, 2017|language=pl}}</ref> Former President [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] and former Secretary of State [[Madeleine Albright]] were among those who gave eulogies, while attendees included international diplomats and emissaries; journalists [[Carl Bernstein]], [[Chuck Todd]] and [[David Ignatius]]; 100-year-old Gen. [[Edward Rowny]]; former National Security Adviser [[Susan E. Rice]]; and former National Security Advisor, Lt. Gen. [[H. R. McMaster]].<ref name="The New York Times">{{cite news|last1=Flegenheimer|first1=Matt|title=Washington Remembers Brzezinski, and a Very Different Era|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/us/politics/zbigniew-brzezinski-funeral.html|access-date=June 9, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=June 9, 2017}}</ref> "If I could choose my seatmate, it would be Dr. Brzezinski," Carter said of his international flights on [[Air Force One]]. Former National Security Advisor [[Henry Kissinger]], aged 94, was unable to attend, but a note he sent during the eulogy said: "The world is an emptier place without Zbig pushing the limits of his insights."<ref name="The New York Times"/>
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