Sun Myung Moon Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Illness and death== On 14 August 2012, after suffering from [[pneumonia]] earlier in the month, Moon was admitted to Saint Mary's Hospital at [[The Catholic University of Korea]] in Seoul.<ref>{{cite news|title=Unification Church Says Leader Moon Is 'Gravely Ill'|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-16/unification-church-says-leader-moon-is-gravely-ill-.html|publisher=Bloomberg L.P.|access-date=16 August 2012|first=Sangwon|last=Yoon|date=15 August 2012}}</ref> On 15 August 2012, he was reported to be gravely ill and was put on a ventilator at the intensive care unit of St. Mary's.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9517193/The-Rev-Sun-Myung-Moon.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9517193/The-Rev-Sun-Myung-Moon.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=The Rev Sun Myung Moon |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=3 September 2012 |access-date=9 October 2012 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On 31 August 2012, Moon was transferred to a church-owned hospital near his home in [[Gapyeong]], northeast of [[Seoul]],<ref name=WP01>{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Emma|title=Sun Myung Moon dies at 92; Washington Times owner led the Unification Church|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/sun-myung-moon-dies-at-92-washington-times-owner-led-the-unification-church/2012/09/02/001b747a-f531-11e1-aab7-f199a16396cf_story.html|access-date=2 September 2012|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=2 September 2012}}</ref> after suffering multiple organ failure.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/31/sun-myung-moon-illness-irreversible-unification-church/ |title=Sun Myung Moon illness 'irreversible': Unification Church |website=The Raw Story |date=31 August 2012 |access-date=4 September 2012 |archive-date=3 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903231508/http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/31/sun-myung-moon-illness-irreversible-unification-church/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Moon died on the morning of 3 September 2012 (1:54 am KST) at the age of 92.<ref name="death">[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/2/rev-sun-myung-moon-founder-times-dies-92/ "The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of The Times, dies at 92"], Washington ''[[The Washington Times]]'', 9 February 2012.</ref> A two-week mourning period was conducted in honor of him. On 15 September, after a funeral service attended by tens of thousands of Unification Church followers, Moon was buried at a church-owned mansion in Gapyeong.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-religion-unification-idUSBRE88E02S20120915|title=Unification Church head Sun Myung Moon buried in Korea|first1=Seongbin|last1=Kang|first2=Jane|last2=Chung|work=Reuters|date=15 September 2012|access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page