Too many young deaths.....

Death and aftermath[edit]

Larsson died on 9 November 2004 in Stockholm, aged 50, of a heart attack after climbing seven flights of stairs to his office, because the lift was not working.^[13] There were rumours that his death was in some way induced, because of death threats he had received as editor of Expo,^[14] but these have been denied by Eva Gedin, his Swedish publisher.^[15]

Larsson is interred at the Högalid Church cemetery in the district of Södermalm in Stockholm.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2008, it was announced that a 1977 will, found soon after Larsson's death, declared his wish to leave his assets to the Umeå branch of the Communist Workers League (now the Socialist Party). As the will was unwitnessed, it was not valid under Swedish law, with the result that all of Larsson's estate, including future royalties from book sales, went to his father and brother.^[16][17] His long-term partner Eva Gabrielsson,^[18] who found the will, has no legal right to the inheritance, sparking controversy between her and his father and brother. Reportedly, the couple never married because, under Swedish law, couples entering into marriage were required to make their addresses (at the time) publicly available, so marrying would have created a security risk.^[19] Owing to his reporting on extremist groups and the death threats he had received, the couple had sought and been granted masking of their addresses, personal data, and identity numbers from public records, to make it harder for others to trace them; this kind of "identity cover" was integral to Larsson's work as a journalist and would have been difficult to bypass if the two had married or become registered partners.^{[citation needed]}