Editing Hubert Humphrey (section)

==Death and funeral==
[[File:HumphreyGrave.jpg|thumb|Burial plot of Hubert and Muriel Humphrey at [[Lakewood Cemetery]] in [[Minneapolis]]]]
Humphrey spent his last weeks calling old political acquaintances. One call was to [[Richard Nixon]], inviting him to his upcoming funeral, which Nixon accepted. Staying in the hospital, Humphrey went from room to room, cheering up other patients by telling them jokes and listening to them. On January 13, 1978, he died of bladder cancer at his home in [[Waverly, Minnesota]], at the age of 66.

Humphrey's body [[Lying in state#United States|lay in state]] in the [[United States Capitol rotunda|rotundas of the U.S. Capitol]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aoc.gov/nations-stage/lying-state-honor |title= Lying in State or in Honor |publisher=US Architect of the Capitol (AOC) |access-date=September 1, 2018}}</ref> and the [[Minnesota State Capitol]] before being interred at [[Lakewood Cemetery]] in Minneapolis. His death overshadowed the death of his colleague from [[Montana]], Senator [[Lee Metcalf]], who had died the day before Humphrey. Old friends and opponents of Humphrey, from Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon to President Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale, paid their final respects. "He taught us how to live, and finally he taught us how to die", said Mondale.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1978/Hubert-Humphrey-Dies/12309251197005-7/|title=Hubert Humphrey Dies – Events of 1978 – Year in Review|work=United Press International|access-date=April 12, 2012}}</ref>

Humphrey's wife Muriel was appointed by Minnesota governor [[Rudy Perpich]] to serve in the U.S. Senate until a special election to fill the term was held; she did not seek election to finish her husband's term in office. In 1981, she married Max Brown and took the name Muriel Humphrey Brown.<ref>Mills, Barbara Kleban, "[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20078617,00.html A Childhood Friendship Turns to Love, and Muriel Humphrey Plans to Be Married] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203020231/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20078617,00.html |date=February 3, 2011 }}", ''People'', February 16, 1981, Vol. 15 No. 6.</ref> Upon her death in 1998 she was interred next to Humphrey at Lakewood Cemetery.<ref name="Mooar, 1998"/>

The epitaph on Humphrey's gravestone reads: "I have enjoyed my life, its disappointments outweighed by its pleasures. I have loved my country in a way that some people consider sentimental and out of style. I still do, and I remain an optimist, with joy, without apology, about this country and about the American experiment in democracy."