     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,    ON NOVEMBER 17,  1996, AT 3:31 PM., THE DECEASED WAS FOUND EXPIRED SITTINT ON A ROCKING SOFA-CHAIR AT HOME, BY HER SISTER.  FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND CONFIRMED EXPIRATION. 
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.  SHE REPORTEDLY WAS SUFFERING WITH MULTIPLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS WHICH INCLUDED CARDIAC DISEASE, OVARIAN CANCER AND ULCERS.  HER PHYSICIAN WAS CONTACTED AND ADVISED THAT HE WAS WILLING TO SIGN THE CERTIFICATE.    SHE REPORTEDLY WAS ON CAPOTEN, METOPROLOL, TICLID, PROPOXY-N, APAP, NIFEDIPINE,  AND DURICEF.
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     AS PER INFORMATION PROVIDED BY DECEASED'S SISTER, THE DECEASED FELL AT HOME ON OCTOBER 23, 1996.  WAS TAKEN TO NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER, WHERE SHE WAS EXAMINED AND RELEASED. NO FRACTURES FOUND, JUST A BRUISED THIGH.  SHE ALSO HAD A FEEDING TUBE.   DR. ALEJANDRO VILASUSO 754-1654, CONTACTED THIS OFFICE ON NOVEMBER 18,1996 AND ADVISED THAT HE HAD BEEN TREATING THE DECEASED FOR ABOUT FOUR YEARS.  DIAGNOSIS: MULTI-INFARCT DEMENTIA, CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY, RECURRENT ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA, CARCINOMA OF CERVIX, GASTRO-INTESTINAL BLEEDING DUE TO ULCERS, HYPERTENSION, AND OSTEOARTHRITIS. 