Death

On 27 July 1890, aged 37, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a 7mm Lefaucheux à broche revolver.
There were no witnesses and he died 30 hours after the incident. The shooting may have taken
place in the wheat field in which he had been painting, or a local barn. The bullet was deflected
by a rib and passed through his chest without doing apparent damage to internal organs – probably stopped
by his spine. He was able to walk back to the Auberge Ravoux, where he was attended to by two doctors,
but without a surgeon present the bullet could not be removed. The doctors tended to him as best they could,
then left him alone in his room, smoking his pipe. The following morning Theo rushed to his brother's side,
finding him in good spirits. But within hours Vincent began to fail, suffering from an untreated infection
resulting from the wound. He died in the early hours of 29 July. According to Theo, Vincent's last words were:
"The sadness will last forever".

Van Gogh was buried on 30 July, in the municipal cemetery of Auvers-sur-Oise. The funeral was attended by
Theo van Gogh, Andries Bonger, Charles Laval, Lucien Pissarro, Émile Bernard, Julien Tanguy and Paul Gachet,
among twenty family, friends and locals. Theo had been ill, and his health began to decline further after his
brother's death. Weak and unable to come to terms with Vincent's absence, he died on 25 January 1891 at Den Dolder,
and was buried in Utrecht. In 1914, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger had Theo's body exhumed and moved from Utrecht
to be re-buried alongside Vincent's at Auvers-sur-Oise.