what did emily dickinson die of?
Bright's disease
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 Hesketh @-@ Prichard died from sepsis on 14 June 1922 , at the ancestral home of his wife at Gorhambury , Hertfordshire , England . His obituarists ascribed this to an obscure form of blood poisoning brought on by gassing in the trenches during his war service . However , his ailments , including fatigue , heart – digestive – neurological disorders , appendicitis , cognitive problems , depression , anxiety — are today recognised as differential symptoms of malaria . Left untreated they sometimes lead to organ failure and death . 

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 She lived a long life , and in her later years often wrote on census forms that she was born later than she actually was . Shortly before she died in 1884 , she suffered a stroke that left her deaf and bedridden . After her death , she was buried along with the ashes of Edward Williams next to Thomas Jefferson Hogg in Kensal Green Cemetery . 

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 In early October 1816 , Imlay left Godwin 's house in London and committed suicide on 9 October by taking an overdose of laudanum at an inn in Swansea , Wales ; she was 22 . The details surrounding her death and her motivations are disputed . Most of the letters regarding the incident were destroyed or are missing . In his 1965 article " Fanny Godwin 's Suicide Re @-@ examined " , B. R. Pollin lays out the major theories that had been put forward regarding her suicide and which continue to be used today : 

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 Inoperable colorectal cancer was discovered during an operation on 8 October 1933 . He told his consulting doctor , Arthur Thomson , that he had no faith in an afterlife : " I believe there is nothing but complete oblivion . " Elgar died on 23 February 1934 at the age of seventy @-@ six and was buried next to his wife at St. Wulstan 's Roman Catholic Church in Little Malvern . 

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 Some friends considered suicide a possibility , however . His stomach pains may have taken a substantial part in a decision to end his life . An executor of Nelson 's will said he had told his sister that he would " rather die than be an invalid . " 
