     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON SEPT. 3, 1996 ABOUT 9:00 PM THE DECEASED WENT TO BED.  ABOUT 10:00 PM HIS WIFE HEARD HIM SNORING LOUDLY AND WENT TO SLEEP IN THE LIVINGROOM ON THE COUCH.  ON SEPT. 4, 1996 AT 6:30 AM HIS WIFE TOOK HER DAUGHTER TO SCHOOL.  SHE RETURNED HOME ABOUT 7:20 AM AND TRIED WAKE THE DECEASED.  HE WAS UNRESPONSIVE AND COLD TO THE TOUCH.  FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED, BUT PRONOUNCED HIM DEAD UPON ARRIVAL.
     THE WIFE OF DECEASED ADVISED HE HAD A HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION, AND HAD UNDERGONE DRUG TREATMENT A FEW YEARS AGO.  DURING HIS TREATMENT HE WAS PRESCRIBED ANTI-DEPRESSANTS, BECAUSE HE WAS DEPRESSED AND HAD ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY DRUG OVERDOSE.  SINCE HIS TREATMENT HE WAS VERY HAPPY, BUT SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHEN HE STARTED USING DRUGS AGAIN OR WHAT HE WAS USINIG.  SHE DOESN'T FEEL HE WAS ATTEMPING SUICIDE WHEN HE DIED, BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING ALONG VERY WELL AND HE SEEMED VERY HAPPY.  HE WAS TREATED BY DR. LARRY COHEN (931-6116) ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO, BUT HAD NOT GONE TO A DOCTOR SINCE THEN.  NO HOSPITALIZATIONS.
     ACCORDING TO DR, COHEN HE LAST TREATED THE DECEASED IN 1993 FOR CONGENITAL LUMBAR STENOSIS OF THE BACK AND HYPERTHYROIDISM.  HE PRESCRIBED PERCOCET, PERCODAN, STEROID INJECTIONS AND SYNTHROID.  HE WAS HOSPITALIZED AT PARKWAY HOSPITAL IN 1988 FOR SEPTIC SHOCK, HYPERGLYCEMIA, METABOLIC ACIDOSIS, REACTIVE HEPATITIS AND INFARCT OF LEFT LIVER.  HE WAS AGAIN HOSPITALIZED AT PARKWAY IN 1993 FOR CHEST PAIN, ENCEPHALOPATHY AND FEVER WITH A WHITE COUNT OF 22,000.  HE BECAME ADDICTED TO THE PAIN KILLERS AND WAS IN AND OUT OF DRUG REHABILITATION.  HE WAS REFERRED TO TWO OTHER DOCTORS ABOUT HIS BACK, BUT WAS TOLD HIS CONDITION WAS INOPERABLE.  
     MEDICATIONS TRANSPORTED: TRAZODONE, TRANDATE, AFRIN.
     
                       *** REFILED ON DECEMBER 27, 1996 ***  [BAR]