Naffah died at the age of 92 on 9 April 2017.[1] He was posthumously awarded the National Order of the Cedar, Lebanon's highest honour for great services rendered to the country, for acts of courage, devotion of great moral value and for years in public service. In an obituary by Samir Atallah, Naffah was commended as "a model politician" and for never using power to serve his own interests. Atallah described him as a "sincere and noble politician" and that with his loss, Lebanon "loses a role model in honest political work".[2]