Death and Funeral
The seven-year reign of King Khaled ended on 13 June 1982 at 10 am with his death due to a heart attack in Taif. On the same day, his body was brought from Taif to Mecca. After funeral prayers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, King Khalid was buried in Al Oud cemetery in Riyadh. Leaders of Qatar, Kuwait, Djibouti, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as well as then Egypt President Hosni Mubarek participated in the funeral.
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“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
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For a place to lay your family down.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)