Editing Jimi Hendrix (section)

== Death, post-mortem, and burial ==
{{Main|Death of Jimi Hendrix}}
[[File:SamarkandHotel1.JPG|thumb|right|upright|alt=A color photograph of a white, multi-story building.|The Samarkand Hotel, where Hendrix spent his final hours]]
Details concerning Hendrix's last day and death are disputed.<ref>{{harvnb|Hendrix|McDermott|2007|pp=58–60}}: Hendrix spending most of September&nbsp;17 with Dannemann and Dannemann as the only witness to Hendrix's final hours; {{harvnb|Unterberger|2009|pp=119–126}}: the disputed details of Hendrix's final hours and death; {{harvnb|Moskowitz|2010|p=82}}: uncertainty in the specific details of his final hours and death.</ref> He spent much of September&nbsp;17, 1970, in London with [[Monika Dannemann]], the only witness to his final hours.{{sfn|Hendrix|McDermott|2007|pp=58–60}} Dannemann said that she prepared a meal for them at her apartment in the Samarkand Hotel around 11&nbsp;p.m., when they shared a bottle of wine.{{sfn|Hendrix|McDermott|2007|p=59}} She drove him to the residence of an acquaintance at approximately 1:45&nbsp;a.m., where he remained for about an hour before she picked him up and drove them back to her flat at 3 a.m.{{sfn|Cross|2005|pp=331–332}} She said that they talked until around 7&nbsp;a.m., when they went to sleep. Dannemann awoke around 11 a.m. and found Hendrix breathing but unconscious and unresponsive. She called for an ambulance at 11:18&nbsp;a.m., and it arrived nine minutes later<!--at 11:27-->.<ref>{{harvnb|Cross|2005|pp=331–332}}; {{harvnb|Hendrix|McDermott|2007|p=59}}.</ref> Paramedics <!--then-->transported Hendrix to [[St Mary Abbots Hospital]] where doctor John Bannister pronounced him dead at 12:45&nbsp;p.m. on September&nbsp;18.{{sfn|Moskowitz|2010|p=82}}<ref name=tpgtdil>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P7RVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6843%2C3631944 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=UPI |title=Top pop guitarist, 24 (27), dies in London |date=September 18, 1970 |page=3A}}</ref><ref name=srpostd>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4wsSAAAAIBAJ&pg=6262%2C891827 |work=[[Spokesman-Review]] |publisher=[[Cowles Company]]|location=Spokane, Washington|agency=[[Associated Press]] |title=Pop star dies |date=September 19, 1970 |page=2}}</ref>

Coroner Gavin Thurston ordered a [[post-mortem]] examination which was performed on September&nbsp;21 by [[Robert Donald Teare]], a forensic pathologist.{{sfn|Brown|1997|pp=158–159}} Thurston completed the inquest on September&nbsp;28 and concluded that Hendrix [[pulmonary aspiration|aspirated]] his own vomit and died of [[asphyxia]] while intoxicated with [[barbiturate]]s.<ref>{{harvnb|Brown|1997|pp=172–174}}: Coroner Gavin Thurston's September&nbsp;28 inquest {{harvnb|Moskowitz|2010|p=82}}: Hendrix's September&nbsp;21 autopsy.</ref> Citing "insufficient evidence of the circumstances", he declared an [[open verdict]].{{sfn|Brown|1997|pp=172–174}} Dannemann later revealed that Hendrix had taken nine of her prescribed [[Secobarbital/brallobarbital/hydroxyzine|Vesparax]] sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage.<ref>{{harvnb|Cross|2005|p=332}}; {{harvnb|McDermott|2009|p=248}}.</ref>

[[Desmond Henley]] embalmed Hendrix's body,<ref name=christopherhenley>{{Cite web|url=http://christopherhenleylimited.com/inmemoriam.htm |title=In memoriam Desmond C. Henley |work=Internet |publisher=Christopher Henley Limited 2008–2010 |access-date=March 8, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914054346/http://christopherhenleylimited.com/inmemoriam.htm |archive-date=September 14, 2013}}</ref> which was flown to Seattle on September&nbsp;29<!--, 1970-->.{{sfn|Brown|1997|p=165}} Hendrix's family and friends held a service at Dunlap Baptist Church in Seattle's [[Rainier Valley, Seattle|Rainier Valley]] on Thursday, October&nbsp;1; his body was interred at [[Greenwood Memorial Park (Renton, Washington)|Greenwood Cemetery]] in nearby [[Renton, Washington|Renton]],<ref name=jfgwcm>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iAcRAAAAIBAJ&pg=5532%2C169340 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |title=Final journey for Jimi Hendrix |date=October 2, 1970 |page=5A}}</ref> the location of his mother's grave.{{sfn|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|p=475}} Family and friends traveled in 24 limousines, and more than 200 people attended the funeral, including Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding, [[Miles Davis]], [[John P. Hammond|John Hammond]], and [[Johnny Winter]].{{sfn|Cross|2005|pp=338–340}}<ref name=hffth>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5VFWAAAAIBAJ&pg=7464%2C424265 |work=[[Spokesman-Review]] |publisher=[[Cowles Company]]|location=Spokane, Washington|agency=[[Associated Press]] |title=150 fete Hendrix |date=October 2, 1970 |page=7}}</ref>

Hendrix is often cited as one example of an allegedly disproportionate number of musicians dying at age 27, including [[Brian Jones]], [[Alan Wilson (musician)|Alan Wilson]], [[Jim Morrison]], and [[Janis Joplin]] in the same era, a phenomenon referred to as the [[27&nbsp;Club]].<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/the-27-club-a-brief-history-17853/ | title=The 27 Club: A Brief History | magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] | date=December 8, 2019 }}</ref>