Editing Miguel Delibes (section)

=== Death ===
[[File:Capilla ardiente de Miguel Delibes.jpg|thumb|200px| Miguel Delibes's casket at the funeral chapel installed in the reception hall of the Town Hall of Valladolid.]] 
[[File:Homenaje a Miguel Delibes en el Real Valladolid-Real Madrid.jpg|thumb|200px| The events in memory of the writer in Valladolid during the weekend following his death. In the picture, [[Manuel Enrique Mejuto Gonzalez|Mejuto González]], referee of the [[La Liga|Spanish first league]] match between Real Valladolid and Real Madrid, accompanies the grandson of the writer at the release of a white dove as a tribute to Miguel Delibes.]] 
During the early days of March 2010 his health worsened, and on 11 March, the writer was in critical condition, conscious but heavily sedated, and his family expected his death within hours.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.publico.es/culturas/301072/miguel/delibes/critico |title=Miguel Delibes, en estado de máxima gravedad |newspaper=[[Público (España)|Público]] |date=11 March 2010 |access-date=13 March 2010 |language=es |publisher=Display Connectors, [[Sociedad Limitada|SL.]]}}</ref> Miguel Delibes finally died at his home in Valladolid early in the morning of March 12, 2010, at the age of 89 years as a result of the colon cancer that was first diagnosed in 1998.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2010/03/12/actualidad/1268348402_850215.html |title=Muere Miguel Delibes, alma del castellano  |newspaper=[[El País]] |date=12 March 2010 |access-date=12 March 2010 |language=es |publisher=[[PRISA]] |first=Antonio |last=Fraguas |author-link=Antonio Fraguas}}</ref> His funeral chapel was installed that morning in the reception room of the Town Hall of Valladolid. It was visited by such personalities as Lola Herrera, [[Concha Velasco]], the Deputy Prime Minister [[Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega]], the President of [[Castile and León]] [[Juan Vicente Herrera Campo|Juan Vicente Herrera]] and the Minister of Culture [[Ángeles González-Sinde]], among others, as well as over 18,000 people.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100312/mas-18000-personas-dan-su-ultimo-adios-a-miguel-delibes-capilla-ardiente/323447.shtml |title=Más de 20.000 personas dan su último adiós a Miguel Delibes en la capilla ardiente |work=[[RTVE]] |date=13 March 2010 |access-date=13 March 2010 |language=es}}</ref>

His funeral was held in the morning of March 13 in the Cathedral of Valladolid. His remains were cremated and buried in the Pantheon of Illustrious Men of Valladolid among personalities such as [[José Zorrilla]] and [[Rosa Chacel]]. Valladolid City Council granted the privilege of moving the cremated remains of Ángeles, his wife, to that cemetery to bury with Delibes, thus honouring his long-expressed wish.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.elnortedecastilla.es/rc/20100313/mas-actualidad/cultura/miles-ciudadanos-acompanan-cortejo-201003130734.html |title=Miguel Delibes reposa junto a su esposa tras recibir un sentido y multitudinario adiós en las calles de Valladolid |newspaper=[[El Norte de Castilla]] |date=13 March 2010 |access-date=14 March 2010 |language=es |publisher=[[Vocento]] }}</ref>