Following the October 2003 passing of Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong May-ling), whom many considered "Forever the First Lady," Faina Chiang Fang-liang, wife of the late President Chiang Ching-kuo, died in the afternoon of December 15, 2004 at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. Chiang died at the age of 90 from pulmonary and cardiac failure stemming from lung cancer.
繼二○○三年十月「永遠的第一夫人」蔣宋美齡辭世後，蔣故總統經國先生的夫人蔣方良女士，也因肺癌末期導致心肺衰竭，於二○○四年十二月十五日中午病逝於台北榮民總醫院，享壽九十歲。