The Death of Deng Xiaoping

After six major surgeries and over a hundred blood transfusions, at 9.25 in the morning, January 8, 1976, Joe and Lai's suffering finally came to an end. From the time he had moved his residence to the hospital until the end of 1975, when it was too sick to see anyone, Joe had met with 63 foreign delegations which included heads of state. He always lived by the main thrust of his funeral instructions were, don't make a big fuss,. No monument, no grave, do not deter his ashes at Baupau-Shan.