Widely respected for his humanitarian commitment, Marcel Junod died as he had lived: in action, while bringing a patient round from surgery on 16 June 1961. In 1979 a monument was put up in his memory in Hiroshima. It was after his experiences there that he had noted in his diary: "I have no doubt about it: the world is today confronted with a choice - to continue to exist, or to be annihilated if that bomb is used again…"