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Stanisław Lem’s final illnesses and death

Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A quiet writer’s study at dusk in Kraków, with an empty chair, notebook, and bookshelves, suggesting the end of a literary life.

портрет Лема 1966 року, наданий секретарем Войцехом Земеком; дозвіл спадкоємців Лема, CC BY-SA 3.0. Атрибуція: Stanisław Lem / courtesy Wojciech Zemek / CC BY-SA 3.0. Оригінал: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem.jpg. Повторно використано з #1707 без змін.

портрет Лема 2005 року, автор Mariusz Kubik, CC BY 2.5. Атрибуція: Mariusz Kubik / CC BY 2.5. Оригінал: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanislaw_Lem_by_Kubik.JPG. Повторно використано з #1707 без змін.

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Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A quiet writer’s study at dusk in Kraków, with an empty chair, notebook, and bookshelves, suggesting the end of a literary life.

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In the final years of his life, Stanisław Lem had diabetes and circulatory problems. A biography on Lem’s official website says that several weeks before his death he was hospitalized with symptoms of kidney failure and pneumonia. Lem’s secretary told the Associated Press that the writer died in Kraków on 27 March 2006 from heart failure. The sources report these conditions but do not establish that each one caused his death. [1–3]