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Death and funeral of Coretta Scott King

Death and funeral of Coretta Scott King
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Location New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Lithonia, Georgia, USA
Participants George W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton

On January 30, 2006, Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., died after arriving at a rehabilitation center in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. Her public funeral followed eight days later at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in her resident state of Georgia. In keeping with her personal wishes, King was buried next to her husband in a crypt on the grounds of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change.

Mrs. King suffered strokes throughout the year 2005, and had different brushes with diseases, including a mild heart attack. The clinic that King received medical attention at was granted exposure by her death, though mostly negative, and ultimately was shut down. Prior to this, King was released from Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta after regaining some of her speech. Nearly two weeks later, King signed into the clinic in Mexico where she would ultimately die.

Coretta Scott King died late on the evening of January 30, 2006 at the rehabilitation center in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, In the Oasis Hospital where she was undergoing holistic therapy for her stroke and advanced stage ovarian cancer. The main cause of her death is believed to be respiratory failure due to complications from ovarian cancer. The clinic at which she died was called the Hospital Santa Monica, but was licensed as Clinica Santo Tomas. Newspaper reports indicated that it was not legally licensed to "perform surgery, take X-rays, perform laboratory work or run an internal pharmacy, all of which it was doing." It was also founded, owned, and operated by San Diego resident and highly controversial alternative medicine figure Kurt Donsbach. Days after Mrs. King's death, the Baja California, Mexico, state medical commissioner, Dr. Francisco Vera, shut down the clinic. On February 1, 2006, King's body was flown from Mexico to Atlanta.


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