Editing Frantz Fanon (section)

===Death and aftermath===
With his health declining, Fanon's comrades urged him to seek treatment in the [[United States|U.S.]] as his Soviet doctors had suggested.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=Gordon R. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVUYDAAAQBAJ&dq=fanon+death+pneumonia+living+fanon&pg=PA25 |title=Living Fanon: Global Perspectives |date=2016-04-30 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-11999-4 |editor-last=Gibson |editor-first=Nigel C. |pages=25 |language=en |chapter=Requiem on a Life Well Lived: In Memory of Fanon}}</ref> In 1961, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] arranged a trip under the promise of stealth for further leukemia treatment at a [[National Institutes of Health]] facility.<ref name=":8" /><ref>Codevilla, Angelo, ''Informing Statecraft'' (1992, New York).</ref> During his time in the United States, Fanon was handled by CIA agent Oliver Iselin.<ref>Meaney, Thomas (2019), "Frantz Fanon and the CIA Man", ''The American Historical Review'' '''124'''(3): 983–995.</ref> As Lewis R. Gordon points out, the circumstances of Fanon's stay are somewhat disputed: "What has become orthodoxy, however, is that he was kept in a hotel without treatment for several days until he contracted pneumonia."<ref name=":8" />

On 6 December 1961, Fanon died from [[double pneumonia]] in [[Bethesda, Maryland]]. He had begun [[Leukemia#Treatment|leukemia treatment]] but far too late.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Macey |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdVRpzeA47YC&dq=fanon+death+pneumonia&pg=PA484 |title=Frantz Fanon: A Biography |date=2012-11-13 |publisher=Verso Books |orig-year=2000 |isbn=978-1-84467-848-8 |pages=484 |language=en}}</ref> He had been admitted under the name of '''Ibrahim Omar Fanon''', a Libyan ''[[nom de guerre]]'' he had assumed in order to enter a hospital in [[Rome]] after being wounded in [[Morocco]] during a mission for the [[Algerian National Liberation Front]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hopkins1.edublogs.org/files/2010/10/WE-Foreward-by-Homi-Bhabha-2004-1pw5wvp.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511155113/https://hopkins1.edublogs.org/files/2010/10/WE-Foreward-by-Homi-Bhabha-2004-1pw5wvp.pdf |archive-date=2020-05-11 |url-status=live|title=Foreword: Framing Fanon|first=Homi K.|last=Bhabha|access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref> He was buried in Algeria after [[lying in state]] in [[Tunisia]]. Later, his body was moved to a [[martyr]]s' (''Chouhada'') [[Cemetery|graveyard]] at [[Aïn Kerma]] in eastern Algeria.

Frantz Fanon was survived by his French wife, Josie (née Dublé), their son, Olivier Fanon, and his daughter from a previous relationship, [[Mireille Fanon Mendès-France|Mireille Fanon-Mendès France]]. [[Josie Fanon]] later became disillusioned with the government and after years of depression and drinking died by [[suicide]] in [[Algiers]] in 1989.<ref name="Cherki"/><ref>Zeilig, L. (2016) ''Frantz Fanon, Militant Philosopher of Third World Liberation.'' I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. p 232</ref> Mireille became a professor of international law and conflict resolution and serves as president of the Frantz Fanon Foundation. Olivier became president of the Frantz Fanon National Association, which was created in Algiers in 2012.<ref name="FANON2015">{{cite book|author=Frantz Fanon|title=Écrits sur l'aliénation et la liberté|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5jNCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT14|date=29 October 2015|publisher=La Decourverte|isbn=978-2-7071-8871-7|page=14}}</ref>