Editing Doris Lessing (section)

===Illness and death===
During the late-1990s Lessing had a stroke,<ref name=progressive/> which stopped her from travelling during her later years.<ref name=Verongos>{{cite news|title=Doris Lessing, Novelist Who Won 2007 Nobel, is Dead at 94|author=Helen T. Verongos|date=17 November 2013|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/books/doris-lessing-novelist-who-won-2007-nobel-is-dead-at-94.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=17 November 2013}}</ref> She was still able to attend the theatre and opera.<ref name=progressive>{{cite web|url=http://www.dorislessing.org/theprogressive.html|author=Raskin, Jonah|title=The Progressive Interview: Doris Lessing|work=The Progressive (reprint)|publisher=dorislessing.org|date=June 1999|access-date=17 November 2013}}</ref> She began to focus her mind on death, for example asking herself if she would have time to finish a new book.<ref name=obit>{{cite news|title=Doris Lessing: Nobel Prize-winning author whose work ranged from social and political realism to science fiction|author=Peter Guttridge|date=17 November 2013|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/doris-lessing-nobel-prizewinning-author-whose-work-ranged-from-social-and-political-realism-to-science-fiction-8945459.html|work=The Independent|access-date=17 November 2013}}</ref><ref name=progressive /> She died on 17 November 2013, aged 94, at her home in [[West Hampstead]], London, of kidney failure, [[sepsis]] and a chest infection,<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last=Maslen |first=Elizabeth |date=1 January 2017 |title=Lessing [née Tayler], Doris May (1919–2013), writer |id=108270|freearticle=y}}</ref> predeceased by her two sons, but was survived by her daughter, Jean, who lives in South Africa.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24979129 "Author Doris Lessing dies aged 94"], BBC. Retrieved 17 November 2013.</ref>

She was remembered with a [[humanist celebrant|humanist funeral service]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://humanism.org.uk/2018/04/24/humanists-uk-launches-first-ever-funeral-tribute-archive/|title=Humanists UK launches first ever funeral tribute archive|work=[[Humanists UK]]|access-date=23 October 2010|date=24 April 2018}}</ref>