
Rosemary died from natural causes on January 7, 2005, at the Fort Memorial Hospital in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, at the age of 86, with two of her surviving sisters Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Jean Kennedy Smith, and her only surviving brother Senator Ted Kennedy by her side.
Lobotomy treatments are now abandoned and discredited by the mental health and medical communities due to it’s sever side effects, the procedure is totally rejected by the modern medical practitioners and is no longer used. However, Publicly, she was declared to be mentally handicapped, as that was more socially acceptable in a political family than a failed lobotomy.