Editing Alexander Shulgin (section)

==Personal life, health, and death==
Shulgin was married to Nina Gordon until her death from a stroke in 1977.<ref name="Vastag2014">{{cite news | last=Vastag | first=Brian | title=Chemist Alexander Shulgin, popularizer of the drug Ecstasy, dies at 88 | newspaper=Washington Post | date=3 June 2014 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/chemist-alexander-shulgin-popularizer-of-the-drug-ecstasy-dies-at-88/2014/06/03/19fd9580-eb34-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html | access-date=2 November 2024}}</ref><ref name="Hanna2014">{{cite web | last=Hanna | first=Jon | title=Alexander Theodore Shulgin (1925–2014) | website=openDemocracy | date=9 June 2014 | url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/alexander-theodore-shulgin-19252014/ | access-date=2 November 2024}}</ref> He then married author [[Ann Shulgin|Ann Gotlieb]] in 1981.<ref name = Weber>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/us/alexander-shulgin-psychedelia-researcher-dies-at-88.html|title = Alexander Shulgin, Psychedelia Researcher, Dies at 88|last = Weber|first = Bruce|date = June 8, 2014|accessdate = February 17, 2022|work = [[The New York Times]]|url-access = limited}}</ref><ref name="Hanna2014" /> He spent most of his later life at the Farm in [[Lafayette, California]].

On April 8, 2008, at the age of 82, he underwent surgery to replace a defective [[aortic valve]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=MAPS News: June 2008 – First legal dose of LSD administered! |url=http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=1610 |date=June 19, 2008 |journal=MAPS News |author =Brown, David Jay |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302181622/http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=1610 |archive-date=March 2, 2012 }}</ref> On November 16, 2010, he suffered a stroke, from which he largely recovered.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sasha Shulgin |work=Psychedelic Research |date=November 18, 2010 |url=http://psychedelicresearch.org/?p=125 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222021100/http://psychedelicresearch.org/?p=125 |archive-date=February 22, 2015 }}</ref> Also at the close of 2010, a skin-grafting surgery saved his left foot from being amputated. Around this time, Shulgin began showing early signs of dementia, mostly severe loss of short-term memory. With progression of the dementia since 2010, his wife, Ann Shulgin, had been trying to sell part of their property to raise more money to cover care costs.

On April 17, 2014, Ann Shulgin reported on Facebook that her husband had developed liver cancer, and in a May 31 update on Facebook she said that, although appearing frail, he seemed to be experiencing his last moments in peace and without pain.<ref>{{cite web |author=Pescovitz, David |url=http://boingboing.net/2014/06/01/psychedelic-hero-alexander-shu.html |title=Psychedelic hero Alexander Shulgin nearing death / Boing Boing |publisher=Boingboing.net |date=June 1, 2014 |access-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117222821/http://boingboing.net/2014/06/01/psychedelic-hero-alexander-shu.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Shulgin died at his home on June 2, 2014, at the age of 88.<ref name = Calamur>{{cite web |author=Calamur, Krishnadev |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/03/318458639/alexander-shulgin-the-godfather-of-ecstasy-dies-at-88 |title=Alexander Shulgin, The 'Godfather Of Ecstasy,' Dies At 88 : The Two-Way |publisher=NPR |date=June 3, 2014 |access-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-date=May 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502122638/http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/03/318458639/alexander-shulgin-the-godfather-of-ecstasy-dies-at-88 |url-status=live }}</ref>