Editing Johnny Paycheck (section)

=== Health issues and death ===
Although Paycheck was addicted to drugs including alcohol during his career, he later was said to have "put his life in order"<ref>{{cite web| title= Country singer Johnny Paycheck dead at 64| url= http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/19/obit.paycheck.ap/ | url-status= dead| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20031118195332/http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/19/obit.paycheck.ap/ |archivedate= November 18, 2003| website= CNN.com| date= February 19, 2003| access-date= April 5, 2022}}</ref> after his prison stay.

After 2000, his health would only allow for short appearances. Contracting [[emphysema]] and [[asthma]]<ref name= CBS64 /> after a lengthy illness, Paycheck died at [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]]'s [[Vanderbilt University]] Medical Center in 2003, aged 64. He was survived by his son Jonathan Paycheck.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ratliff |first=Ben |date=2003-02-20 |title=Johnny Paycheck Dies at 64; Hard-Living Country Singer |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/arts/johnny-paycheck-dies-at-64-hard-living-country-singer.html |access-date=2022-12-23 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126014248/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/arts/johnny-paycheck-dies-at-64-hard-living-country-singer.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

He was buried in [[Woodlawn Memorial Park (Nashville, Tennessee)|Woodlawn Memorial Park]] in Nashville; reportedly the plot was paid for by George Jones. Among the roughly 200 attendees at Paycheck’s memorial were Jones, [[Little Jimmy Dickens]], and a sizable grouping contingent of Hell's Angels, admirers of the hard-living Paycheck. "By and large, it was the roughest-looking funeral crowd I have ever seen," a ''Nashville Skyline'' columnist wrote in [[CMT (American TV channel)|CMT]].<ref name="Oxford">{{cite news |last1=Bengal |first1=Rebecca |title=Will the Real Mr. Heartache Please Stand Up and Cry? |url=https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-119-winter-2022/will-the-real-mr-heartache-please-stand-up-and-cry |access-date=7 April 2024 |issue=119 |publisher=Oxford American |date=13 December 2022 |archive-date=April 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240407135350/https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-119-winter-2022/will-the-real-mr-heartache-please-stand-up-and-cry |url-status=live }}</ref>