Death
Ride died on July 23, 2012, at age 61, seventeen months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Following cremation, her ashes were interred next to her father at Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, California.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Now they heap the funeral pyre,
And the torch of death they light;
Ah! ‘tis hard to die by fire!”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“... the heart monitor,
the death cricket bleeping.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.”
—Ambrose (c. 333–397)