Editing Rod Serling (section)

==Death==
[[File:Rod Serling Memorial-2.png|thumb|A memorial in honor of Serling in his home town of Binghamton, New York]]
Serling was said to smoke three to four packs of cigarettes a day.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/29/archives/rod-serling-of-twilight-zone-and-night-gallery-on-tv-dies-won-six.html | title=Rod Serling of 'Twilight Zone' and 'Night Gallery' on TV Dies| newspaper=The New York Times| date=June 29, 1975| last1=Hudson| first1=Edward}}</ref> On May 3, 1975, he had a [[heart attack]] and was hospitalized. He spent two weeks at [[Cayuga Medical Center|Tompkins County Community Hospital]] before being released.<ref name=Sander1992/>{{rp|217}} A second heart attack two weeks later forced doctors to agree that [[open-heart surgery]], although considered risky at the time, was required.<ref name=Sander1992 />{{rp|218}}<ref>"Rodman Edward Serling." ''Dictionary of American Biography''. Supplement 9: 1971–1975. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2010.</ref> The ten-hour-long procedure was performed on June 26, but Serling had a third heart attack on the operating table and died two days later at [[Strong Memorial Hospital]] in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]], New York.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U7BEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4993,7469775&hl=en |title=TV writer Rod Serling dies |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=June 25, 1975 |access-date=September 8, 2013 | work = [[Eugene Register-Guard]] | location = Eugene, Oregon}}</ref> He was 50 years old.<ref name="Memorial" />

His funeral and burial took place on July 2 at Lake View Cemetery, Interlaken, (Seneca County), New York. A memorial was held at [[Cornell University]]'s [[Sage Chapel]] on July 7, 1975.<ref name=Memorial/> Speakers at the memorial included his daughter Anne and the Reverend John F. Hayward.<ref name=Sander1992 />{{rp|218}}