Editing Fakir Musafar (section)

== Illness and death ==
In May 2018, Loomis announced on his website that he was suffering from terminal [[lung cancer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fakir.org/letterfromfakir.html|title=Farewell from Fakir|website=www.fakir.org|access-date=2018-08-03}}</ref> He died on the morning of 1 August 2018.<ref>Slotnik, D. E., [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/obituaries/fakir-musafar-whose-body-play-went-to-extremes-dies-at-87.html "Fakir Musafar, Whose ‘Body Play’ Went to Extremes, Dies at 87"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', Aug 13, 2018.</ref> His death was initially announced in a public [[Facebook]] post by his wife Cléo Dubois, and later confirmed by an obituary in ''[[Artforum]]''.<ref name=artforum/>