Editing James Joyce (section)

==Death==
[[File:Grave James Joyce.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Horizontal gravestone saying "JAMES JOYCE", "NORA BARNACLE JOYCE", GEORGE JOYCE", and "...ASTA OSTERWALDER JO...", all with dates. Behind the stone is a green hedge and a seated statue of Joyce holding a book and pondering.|Grave of Joyce and his family in Zurich-[[Fluntern]]; sculpture by [[Milton Hebald]]
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On 11 January 1941, Joyce underwent surgery in Zurich for a [[perforated ulcer|perforated duodenal ulcer]]. He fell into a coma the following day. He awoke at 2&nbsp;am on 13 January 1941, and asked a nurse to call his wife and son. They were en route when he died 15&nbsp;minutes later, at age 58.{{sfn|Ellmann|1982|pp=[https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce0000ellm_n2o5/page/740 740–741]}}

His body was buried in the [[Fluntern Cemetery]] in Zurich. Swiss tenor [[Max Meili]] sang "Addio terra, addio cielo" from [[Monteverdi]]'s ''[[L'Orfeo]]'' at the burial service.{{sfn|Ellmann|1982|p=[https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce0000ellm_n2o5/page/743 743]}} Joyce had been a subject of the United Kingdom all of his life, and although two senior Irish diplomats were in Switzerland at the time, only the British consul attended the funeral. When [[Joseph Walshe]], secretary at the Department of External Affairs in Dublin, was informed of Joyce's death by Frank Cremins, ''[[chargé d'affaires]]'' at [[Bern]], Walshe responded, "Please wire details of Joyce's death. If possible find out did he die a Catholic? Express sympathy with Mrs Joyce and explain inability to attend funeral."{{sfn|Jordan|2018}} Buried originally in an ordinary grave, Joyce was moved in 1966 to a more prominent "honour grave", with a seated portrait statue by American artist [[Milton Hebald]] nearby. Nora, whom he had married in 1931, survived him by 10 years. She is buried by his side, as is their son Giorgio, who died in 1976.{{sfn|Jordan|2018}}

After Joyce's death, the Irish government declined Nora's request to permit the repatriation of Joyce's remains,{{sfn|Bowker|2012|p=[https://archive.org/details/jamesjoycenewbio0000bowk/page/534 534]}} despite being persistently lobbied by the American diplomat [[John J. Slocum]].{{sfn|Jordan|2018}} In October 2019, a motion was put to [[Dublin City Council]] to plan and budget for the costs of the exhumations and reburials of Joyce and his family somewhere in Dublin, subject to his family's wishes.{{sfn|Horgan-Jones|2019}} The proposal immediately became controversial, with the ''[[Irish Times]]'' commenting: "{{nbsp}}... it is hard not to suspect that there is a calculating, even mercantile, aspect to contemporary Ireland's relationship to its great writers, whom we are often more keen to 'celebrate', and if possible monetise, than read".{{sfn|The Irish Times|2019}}