 On the evening of 4 December 1975, shortly after her 69th birthday, she had a further heart attack in her apartment while entertaining friends, and was pronounced dead at the scene.Her ashes were buried alongside those of Blücher at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in May 1976.After Arendt's death the title page of the final part of "The Life of the Mind" ("Judging") was found in her typewriter, which she had just started, consisting of the title and two epigraphs.