Editing Colleen McCullough (section)

==Death==
[[File:Colleen McCullough Robinson headstone (closeup), Norfolk Island Cemetery, 2015.JPG|thumb|Close-up of her headstone in Emily Bay Cemetery, Norfolk Island, 2015]]
McCullough died on 29 January 2015, at the age of 77, in the Norfolk Island Hospital, [[Burnt Pine]], from apparent renal failure after suffering from a series of small strokes. She had suffered from failing eyesight due to haemorrhagic [[macular degeneration]], and also suffered from [[osteoporosis]], [[trigeminal neuralgia]], [[diabetes]] and [[uterine cancer]], and used a [[wheelchair]] full-time.<ref name="tehageobit">{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/colleen-mccullough-author-of-the-thorn-birds-dies-20150129-131dka.html|title=Colleen McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds, dies|author=Susan Wyndham|work=The Age|date=29 January 2015}}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite news|last1=Fox|first1=Margalit|title=Colleen McCullough, Author of ''The Thorn Birds'', Dies at 77|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/books/colleen-mccullough-author-of-the-thorn-birds-dies-at-77.html?ref=obituaries|access-date=29 January 2015|work=The New York Times|date=29 January 2015}}</ref>

She was buried in a traditional Norfolk Island funeral ceremony at the Emily Bay cemetery on the island.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Colleen McCullough to be buried among Bounty mutineers|url=http://m.smh.com.au/dl-people/dl-entertainment/colleen-mccullough-to-be-buried-among-bounty-mutineers-20150131-132n5x.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=31 January 2015 |access-date=3 January 2016}}</ref>