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===Death===
Addams died on September 29, 1988, at the age of 76, at [[Saint Clare's Hospital (Manhattan)|St. Clare's Hospital and Health Center]] in New York City, having suffered a heart attack after parking his automobile. An ambulance took him from his apartment to the hospital, where he died in the emergency room.<ref name="nytimespace">{{cite news | last=Pace | first=Eric | date=September 30, 1988 | title=Charles Addams Dead at 76; Found Humor in the Macabre | work=The New York Times | access-date=October 11, 2009 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/30/obituaries/charles-addams-dead-at-76-found-humor-in-the-macabre.html}}</ref> As he had requested, a [[Wake (ceremony)|wake]] was held rather than a funeral; he had wished to be remembered as a "good cartoonist". In accordance with Addams's wishes, he was cremated, and his ashes were interred in the pet cemetery of "The Swamp" estate.{{sfn|Davis|2006|p=318}}