 Reich failed to appear for roll call on 3 November 1957 and was found at 7 a.m. in his bed , fully clothed but for his shoes . The prison doctor said he had died during the night of " myocardial insufficiency with sudden heart failure . " He was buried in a vault at Orgonon that he had asked his caretaker to dig in 1955 . He had left instructions that there was to be no religious ceremony , but that a record should be played of Schubert 's " Ave Maria " sung by Marian Anderson , and that his granite headstone should read simply : " Wilhelm Reich , Born March 24 , 1897 , Died ... " None of the academic journals carried an obituary . Time magazine wrote on 18 November 1957 : 
