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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Nazi occupation of France, Joyce, with great difficulty, again obtained asylum in Switzerland for himself and his family. He died after an intestinal operation in the Hospital of the Red Cross Sisters in Zurich on January 13, 1941, not yet 59 years old.

Detailed explanation-2: -Burial in Zurich Fluntern This sojourn in the city is his last: Joyce undergoes surgery for an ulcer and dies shortly thereafter, on 13 January 1941. He is buried with his family in the cemetery in Fluntern; his grave bears the number 1449.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1941 the self-exiled Joyce, who had left Ireland in 1902 because of political turmoil, died after undergoing ulcer surgery in Switzerland and was quickly buried in the Fluntern Cemetery. Though Joyce’s wife Nora tried to move her husband’s body to Ireland after the burial, the Irish government denied the request.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the decades since Joyce’s death, his grave in Zürich’s Fluntern cemetery has become a major tourist attraction. Barnacle was buried alongside her husband a decade later; the couple’s son George and his second wife, Asta Osterwalder Joyce, are also buried at the site.

Detailed explanation-5: -Having suffered from deteriorating eye sight and bouts of colitis for much of his life, Joyce died of a perforated duodenal ulcer in Zürich in 1941, where he is buried at Funtern Cemetery.