Complex sentence: Six weeks later, on December 1 1966, he was dead of cirrhosis of the liver at 41, after years of chronic alcoholism and was buried, as per his final wish, on Smith Ridge, near Coeburn, Virginia.
Split into simpler sentences: Six weeks later, on December 1 1966, he was dead of cirrhosis of the liver at forty-one, after years of chronic alcoholism. He was buried, as per his final wish, on Smith Ridge, near Coeburn, Virginia.