Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:58 am
The heart attack was correct. The lawn and age weren't.
Years of stress from perfecting his passion and heavy smoking caught up with the writer in his final years. In 1975, a 50-year-old Serling suffered two severe heart attacks before entering Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester for heart bypass surgery. He had a 3rd heart attack during the operation and died the following day. He is interred at the cemetery in Interlaken, New York, a part of upstate New York featured prominently in some episodes of The Twilight Zone.