Editing Édith Piaf (section)

== Death ==
[[File:Tombeau d'Edith Piaf.JPG|thumb|Piaf's grave in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]], Paris|alt=A photograph of Piaf's grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris]]

In early 1963, soon after recording "L'Homme de Berlin" with her husband Théo Sarapo, Piaf slipped into a coma due to [[liver cancer]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20131008-edith-piaf-continues-inspire-50-years-anniversary-death-singer |title=Edith Piaf continues to inspire, 50 years after her death |date=2013-10-08 |newspaper=France24 |archive-date=11 July 2023 |access-date=11 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230711224202/https://www.france24.com/en/20131008-edith-piaf-continues-inspire-50-years-anniversary-death-singer |url-status=live }}</ref> She was taken to her villa in [[Plascassier]] on the French Riviera where she was nursed by Sarapo and her friend Simone Berteaut. Over the next few months she drifted in and out of consciousness, before dying at age 47 on 10 October 1963.<ref name="yahoomusicbio" />

Her last words were "Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10374637/Edith-Piaf-Mistress-of-heartbreak-and-pain-who-had-a-few-regrets-after-all.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10374637/Edith-Piaf-Mistress-of-heartbreak-and-pain-who-had-a-few-regrets-after-all.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Edith Piaf: Mistress of heartbreak and pain who had a few regrets, after all |first=William |last=Langley |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=2013-10-13 |access-date=2015-06-13}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It is said that Sarapo drove her body from Plascassier to Paris secretly, so that fans would think she had died in her hometown.<ref name="yahoomusicbio" /><ref name="guardian03" />

Piaf's body is buried in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris, where her grave is among the most visited.<ref name="yahoomusicbio" />