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TIL in 1955, at age 76, Albert Einstein suffered a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Doctors offered surgery, but he refused, saying, “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially.” He died the next day, on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.

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