Editing David Eddings (section)

== Later life ==
On January 26, 2007, Eddings accidentally burned about a quarter of his office, next door to his house, along with his [[Excalibur (automobile)|Excalibur]] sports car.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20070126/NEWS/101260101 |author=F.T. Norton |title=Novelist accidentally burns down office |publisher=Nevada Appeal |year=2007 |access-date=2007-01-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202025010/http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20070126/NEWS/101260101 |archive-date=February 2, 2007 }}</ref>

On February 28, 2007, David Eddings' wife Leigh died following a series of strokes that left her unable to communicate. She was 69.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.elbakin.net/fantasy/news/3407-Deces-De-Leigh-Eddings| title=Décès de Leigh Eddings| publisher=Elbakin.net| year=2007| access-date=2007-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n6qeBAAAQBAJ&dq=David+Eddings+%22grocery+store%22&pg=PT385 |title=The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 |date=2010-10-28 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |isbn=978-1-84901-672-8 |language=en}}</ref> Eddings cared for her at home with her mother after her first stroke, which occurred three years before he finished writing ''The Dreamers''.<ref name="themodernistreview.co.uk"/>

Eddings died of natural causes on June 2, 2009, in [[Carson City, Nevada]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/fantasy-writer-david-eddings-dies|title=Fantasy writer David Eddings dies|last=Neill|first=Graeme|date=2009-06-03|publisher=Bookseller.com|access-date=2009-06-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_nv_obit_eddings.html|title=Fantasy writer Eddings dies|date=2009-06-04|newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|access-date=2009-06-05}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

Dennis, Eddings' brother, said that he had suffered from dementia for a long time, but that the disease had progressed rapidly since September 2008, and that he needed 24-hour care. He also confirmed that in his last months, his brother had been working on a manuscript that was unlike any of his other works, stating "It was very, very different. I wouldn't call it exactly a satire of fantasy but it sure plays with the genre". The unfinished work, along with his other manuscripts, went to his alma mater, Reed College,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20090604/NEWS/906039854/1070&ParentProfile=1058|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612023231/https://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20090604/NEWS/906039854/1070%26ParentProfile%3D1058|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 June 2009|title=Fantasy writer David Eddings dies in Carson City home|work=The Nevada Appeal|access-date=19 August 2015}}</ref> along with a bequest of $18 million to fund "students and faculty studying languages and literature."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2009/07/fantasy_writer_leaves_reed_18.html |work=The Oregonian |title=Fantasy writer David Eddings leaves Reed College $18 million |date=2009-07-15}}</ref> Eddings also bequeathed $10 million to the [[National Jewish Medical and Research Center]] in [[Denver]] for pediatric asthma treatment and research; Eddings' wife Leigh had asthma throughout her life.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12856825 |work=Denver Post |first=Claire |last=Trageser |title=Late author leaves $10 million to National Jewish |date=2009-07-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090718230708/http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12856825 |archive-date=2009-07-18}}</ref>