Editing Tony Hancock (section)

== Death ==
Hancock died by suicide by [[Drug overdose|overdose]], in [[Sydney]], on 25 June 1968, aged 44.<ref>{{cite news |last= Sommerlad |first= Joe |date= 27 June 2018 |title= Tony Hancock 50 years on: How the legendary British comedian paved the way for Alan Partridge and David Brent |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/tony-hancock-50th-anniversary-bbc-comedy-alan-partridge-david-brent-sid-james-a8415241.html |work= The Independent |access-date= 20 January 2021}}</ref> He was found dead in his [[Bellevue Hill, New South Wales|Bellevue Hill]] flat with an empty [[vodka]] bottle and a scattering of [[amobarbital]] tablets.<ref name="H&N">''Hancock'' by Freddie Hancock and David Nathan (William Kimber & Co., 1969)</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3626969/Laugh-at-Tony-I-very-nearly-died.html |title=Laugh at Tony? I very nearly died |author=Craig, Olga |date=10 November 2004 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=5 July 2010 | location=London}}</ref>

In one of his suicide notes he wrote: "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times."<ref>John Fisher, ''Tony Hancock : the Definitive Biography'', London : HarperCollins, 2008, p.469</ref> His ashes were taken to England by satirist [[Willie Rushton]]<ref>Fisher, p.484</ref> and were buried in St Dunstan's Church in [[Cranford, London]].

Asked by [[Van Morrison]] about his relationship with Hancock, [[Spike Milligan]] commented in 1989: "Very difficult man to get on with. He used to drink excessively. You felt sorry for him. He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/reviews/1989august.html|title=Blind Date! The Day Van Morrison met... Spike Milligan!? August 1989 Q Magazine interview 'written down by' Paul Du Noyer.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080107084853/http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/reviews/1989august.html|archive-date=7 January 2008|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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