FInal Years On April 17, 1955, while working on a speech Einstein was preparing to commemorate Israel's 17th anniversary, he suffered an abdominal aortic aneurysm and experienced internal bleeding. He was taken to the University Medical Center at Princeton for treatment, but refused surgery, believing that his life was complete and it was his time to go. Einstein died at the university medical center early the next morning April 18, 1955, at 76.
During the autopsy, Thomas Stoltz Harvey removed Einstein's brain, without the permission of his family, for preservation and future study by doctors of neuroscience. His his ashes were scattered in an undisclosed location. After decades of study, Einstein's brain is now located at the Princeton University Medical Center. |