Editing Humphry Davy (section)

=== Death ===
[[Image:davygrave.jpg|thumb|right|Davy's grave at [[Cimetière des Rois|Cimetière Plainpalais]] in Geneva]]Davy spent the last months of his life writing ''Consolations in Travel'', an immensely popular, somewhat amorphous compendium of poetry, thoughts on science and philosophy. Published posthumously, the work became a staple of both scientific and family libraries for several decades afterward. Davy spent the winter in Rome, hunting in the [[Roman Campagna|Campagna]] on his fiftieth birthday. But on 20 February 1829 he had another stroke. After spending many months attempting to recuperate, Davy died in a room at L'Hotel de la Couronne, in the Rue du Rhone, in [[Geneva]], Switzerland, on 29 May 1829.<ref name="Paris">{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HQ82AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA515 |title=The Life of Sir Humphry Davy |first=John Ayrton |last=Paris |author-link=John Ayrton Paris |date=18 September 1831 |publisher=H. Colburn and R. Bentley |via=Google Books |page=515 |access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="ODNB" /> An appendix to his will had included his last wishes; that there be no post-mortem, that he be buried where he died, and that there be an interval between the two, to ensure that he was not merely [[coma]]tose. But the ordinances of the city did not allow such an interval and his funeral took place on the following Monday, 1 June, in the [[Cimetière des Rois|Plainpalais Cemetery]], outside the city walls.<ref name="Paris" />