Kennedy Onassis made her last trip home from New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center on May 18, 1994. The next night, she died in her sleep at her Manhattan apartment, aged 64. Her children were by her side. In the morning, her son John F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his mother's death to the press, saying she had been "surrounded by her friends and her family and her books, and the people and the things that she loved". He added that "She died it in her very own way, and on her own terms, and we all feel lucky for that".