He April 17, 2014 the “master of magical realism” died, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. From his hospitalization to the confirmation of his death, journalists and fans of the writer waited at the door of his home in Mexico City to get updates on his condition.
The death of the author of One hundred years of loneliness was confirmed in Mexico at 2:50 p.m.. The Colombian’s followers brought yellow flowers to his house as a tribute, and international newspapers remembered him for his influence on literature, mentioning his great works.
What did Gabriel García Márquez die from?
In 1999, at 52 years of age, Gabriel García Márquez was diagnosed with cancer in the lymphatic system, an illness that would cause his death fifteen years later. It is known that he received chemotherapy during the treatment, something that his brother Jaime would confirm years later. Although “Gabo” also spoke about that process in 2000 during an interview for TimeColombian newspaper.
“More than a year ago I was subjected to a three-month treatment against lymphomaand today I surprise myself at the enormous lottery that this setback has been in my life”, and I continue, “for fear of not having time to finish the three volumes of my memoirs and two books of stories that I had half finished, I reduced relationships with my friends to a minimum, disconnected the phone, canceled trips and all kinds of pending and future commitments, and I locked myself in to write every day without interruption from eight in the morning until two in the afternoon.
In July 2012, the brother of the Nobel Prize winner declared that Gabriel could not write because “he was suffering from senile dementiacaused by the chemotherapy he received during treatment.” In those months it was rumored that he also suffered from Alzheimer’s, although neither of these two conditions was confirmed by another family member.
Those rumors ended when a video of the Colombian was published on March 6, 2014, on his 87th birthday. That was his last public appearancewhere he was seen aware of your surroundingsalthough with a fragile physical appearance.
March 31 was hospitalized at the Salvador Zubirán Institute due to malnutrition, dehydration, lung and urinary infection. He was discharged on April 8, after being treated with antibiotics for nine days. During those days before his death he was visited by cardiologists and geriatricians.
On April 14, a Mexican newspaper revealed that Gabriel was fighting lymphatic cancer again, which It had spread to his lungs, lymph nodes, and liver.. He died three days later at the age of 87.
What was the Colombian writer’s funeral like and where did his ashes lie?
The author of Love in the time of cholera He was cremated on April 19 y his funeral took place on April 21 of 2014. A tribute national in the Palace of Fine Arts of Mexicowhere important figures such as the then presidents of Mexico and Colombia and other renowned fellow writers attended.
The tribute to the Nobel Prize they made in Mexico. Photo: Getty Images.The ashes left the writer’s house in Mexico City at 3:00 p.m., in a caravan where his wife Mercedes Bacha was along with other close relatives. They arrived at the Palace at four in the afternoon, the urn was there until seven in the afternoon so that the general public says goodbye by García Márquez. During the ceremony, the songs that Gabo liked the most were played and yellow paper butterflies were released.
The ashes of Gabito, nicknamed that way by his friends, rest in a memorial built in his honor in the central patio of the Cloister of La Merced, in the center of the city of Cartagena. The family decided to move him there on May 23, 2016.
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