Editing Rachel Carson (section)

==Death==
Weakened from [[breast cancer]] and her treatment regimen, Carson became ill with a respiratory virus in January 1964. Her condition worsened, and in February, doctors found that she had severe [[anemia]] from her radiation treatments. In March, they discovered that the cancer had reached her liver. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] on April 14, 1964, in her home in [[Silver Spring, Maryland]].<ref name="lkwdpl">{{cite web|title=Rachel Carson biography |url=http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cars-rac.htm |publisher=Women In History |access-date=August 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808015112/http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cars-rac.htm |archive-date=August 8, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="britannica">{{cite book |title=Carson, Rachel |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |year=2010 |edition=2010 |language=en |quote=in full Rachel Louise Carson born May 27, 1907, Springdale, Pennsylvania, U.S. died April 14, 1964, Silver Spring, Maryland.}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Lear|1997|pp=476–480}}</ref>

Her body was [[Cremation|cremated]], and some of her ashes were buried beside her mother at Parklawn Memorial Gardens in [[Rockville, Maryland]].<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 7513–7514). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> The rest were scattered along the coast of [[Squirrel Island, Maine|Squirrel Island]] near [[Sheepscot River]] in [[Maine]].