Where is phil lynott buried

It's not goodbye Philomena, it's au revoir. I do miss hearing your voice. You know I love you with all my heart. No one will ever know how much you meant to me. I had thought that your death was a waste, and a destruction. I'm only beginning to learn that your life was a gift. He collapsed at home in Kew, and while his two daughters Sara and Cathleen were at the house, it was his mother, Philomena, who discovered him and called his estranged wife.

Familiar with his habit, she rushed him to a drug clinic at Clouds House near Shaftesbury, where the clinicians took one look at the ailing Lynott and sent him quickly on to Salisbury Infirmary. There he was diagnosed with septicaemia poisoning of the blood , as well as kidney and liver damage. Although he regained consciousness and was able to speak to Philomena, his condition worsened, and by the start of the New Year he was put on a ventilator to help with his breathing.

Just eleven days after his collapse, on January 4 , he died of pneumonia and heart failure at the hospital's intensive care unit. The gravestones there are all laid out flat, giving it a very different and almost bucolic atmosphere, compared to graveyards generally in Ireland. May both mother and son rest in peace. The headstone of Philip Lynott and his mother Philomena Lynott. July Share This Article:.

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