Editing Thomas Edison (section)

===Death===
Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home, "Glenmont" in [[Llewellyn Park]] in [[West Orange, New Jersey]], which he had purchased in 1886 as a wedding gift for Mina. Rev. [[Stephen J. Herben]] officiated at the funeral;<ref>{{cite news | title = Rev. S. Herben Dead at 75 | newspaper = Plainfield Courier-News | location = Plainfield, New Jersey | page = 11 | date = February 23, 1937 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18254003 | via = [[Newspapers.com]] | access-date = March 19, 2018 | archive-date = March 16, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220316115838/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18254003/rev-s-herben-dead-at-75/ | url-status = live }} {{free access}}</ref> Edison is buried behind the home.<ref>{{cite news|title=Thomas Edison Dies in Coma at 84; Family With Him as the End Comes; Inventor Succumbs at 3:24&nbsp;am. After Fight for Life Since He Was Stricken on August 1. World-Wide Tribute Is Paid to Him as a Benefactor of Mankind|quote=[[West Orange, New Jersey]], Sunday, October 18, 1931. Thomas Alva Edison died at 3:24 o'clock this morning at his home, Glenmont, in the Llewellyn Park section of this city. The great inventor, the fruits of whose genius so magically transformed the everyday world, was 84 years and 8 months old.|work=The New York Times|date=October 18, 1931}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Benoit |first=Tod |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781579126780/page/560/mode/2up |title=Where are they buried? How did they die? |publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-57912-678-0 |page=560 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

Edison's last breath is reportedly contained in a test tube at [[The Henry Ford]] museum near Detroit. Ford reportedly convinced [[Charles Edison]] to seal a test tube of air in the inventor's room shortly after his death, as a memento.<ref>[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_128a.html "Is Thomas Edison's last breath preserved in a test tube in the Henry Ford Museum?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180626/http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_128a.html |date=September 30, 2007 }}, [[The Straight Dope]], September 11, 1987. Retrieved August 20, 2007.</ref> A plaster [[death mask]] and casts of Edison's hands were also made.<ref>Neil Baldwin, Edison: Inventing the Century, University of Chicago Press – 2001, 408</ref> Mina died in 1947.