Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856-September 23, 1939, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, was an Austrian neurologist who become known as the founding father of psychoanalysis (psychotherapy). Today is his deathday. By mid-September 1939, Freud's cancer of the oral cavity was causing him increasingly severe pain. It was inoperable. On September 21 and 22 his doctor and friend, Max Schur administered doses of morphine that resulted in Freud's death on September 23, 1939. Schur and Freud had a "contract" not to keep Freud alive when the time for death was near.
Three days after his death, Freud's body was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium in North London. Ernest Jones gave the funeral oration to a gathering of friends, psychoanalysts and Austrian refugees, including the author Stefan Zweig. Freud's ashes were later placed in the crematorium's columbarium. They rest in an ancient Greek urn that Freud had received as a gift from Princess Bonaparte and which he had kept in his study in Vienna for many years. After his wife Martha died in 1951, her ashes were also placed in the urn.
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