 He died on 18 June 2001 from pancreatic cancer, three months before his 55th birthday.As a sign of the highest appreciation of the city for his artistic work, he was interred in the Alley of Greats at Bare Cemetery, a prestigious place reserved for exceptional Sarajevo citizens.He is interred next to his friend and bandmate, the lead guitarist of Indexi Slobodan-Bodo Kovačević and the Bosnian basketball player Mirza Delibašić.