Editing Dean Martin (section)

===Illness and death===
[[File:Dean Martin Grave.JPG|thumb|upright=1|Crypt of Dean Martin, at [[Westwood Memorial Park]]]]
Martin, a lifelong heavy smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in September 1993. He was told that he would require surgery to prolong his life, but he rejected it. Martin retired from public life in early 1995 and died of [[Respiratory failure|acute respiratory failure]] resulting from [[emphysema]] at his Beverly Hills home on Christmas Day, 1995, at the age of 78.<ref>{{cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Holden |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/26/movies/dean-martin-pop-crooner-and-comic-actor-dies-at-78.html |title=Dean Martin, Pop Crooner And Comic Actor, Dies at 78 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 26, 1995}}</ref> The lights of the Las Vegas Strip were dimmed in his honor. Martin is interred at the [[Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery]] in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Corwin |first1=Miles |last2=Ferrell |first2=David |date=December 29, 1995 |title=Dean Martin Laid to Rest as Stars Avoid Media |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-29-me-19051-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=December 26, 2016}}</ref> The crypt features the epitaph "[[Everybody Loves Somebody|Everybody loves somebody sometime]]", the first line of his signature song.{{sfn|Martin|Smith|2002|p=239}}