       ACCORDING TO INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER RECORDS, AND THE FAMILY OF THE DECEASED, ON DECEMBER 12, 1996, ABT. 8:30P.M., THE DECEASED WAS AT HOME DRINKING WITH FAMILY WHEN SUDDENLY HIS EYES ROLLED BACKWARDS AND HE COLLAPSED TO THE FLOOR.  HE WAS UNRESPONSIVE FOR ABT. 2 - 3 MINUTES AND MADE A GURGLING SOUND.  FIRE RESCUE WAS CALLED AND UPON THEIR ARRIVAL, HE WAS AWAKE AND ORIENTED.  HE WENT TO BED TO LAY DOWN AND ABT. 1/2 HOUR LATER, HIS WIFE RESPONDED TO THE BEDROOM AND HE COMPLAINED TO HER OF HAVING A HEADACHE.  SHE EXAMINED HIM AND OBSERVED BLOOD COMING FROM HIS EAR.  FIRE RESCUE WAS CALLED AGAIN, RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER.  
    UPON HIS ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE WAS POORLY AROUSABLE AND SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVAL, BECAME UNRESPONSIVE.  HE WAS TAKEN TO X-RAY WHERE CT SCAN OF THE BRAIN REVEALED LEFT TEMPOROPARIETAL EPIDURAL HEMATOMA WITH TRANSPULSING HERNIATION, TEMPORAL SKULL FRACTURE, AND BASILAR SKULL FRACTURE.  HE WAS TAKEN TO SURGERY WHERE A LEFT TEMPOROPARIETAL CRANIOTOMY FOR EVACUATION OF EPIDURAL HEMATOMA, HEMOSTASIS, AND INTRADURAL EXPLORATION WAS PERFORMED.  TREATMENT WAS CONTINUED, HOWEVER, HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE.  ON DECEMBER 18, 1996, AT 11:25A.M., HE WAS PRONOUNCED BRAIN DEAD.   ****ADDITIONAL POLICE INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT ACCORDING TO THE SON OF THE DECEASED, THE DECEASED HAD A LONG HISTORY OF ALCOHOLISM.  HE HAD BEEN EMPLOYED BY FPL FOR 22 YEARS AND IN 1990 WAS LAID OFF.  AFTER THAT, HE BECAME DEPRESSED AND STARTED DRINKING HEAVY.  HE STATED THAT AT TIMES HE WOULD BECOME ANGRY AND PUNCH THE WALLS OR HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST THE WALLS.  WHEN HE WAS INTOXICATED, HE WOULD OCASSIONALLY FALL.  
    ON DECEMBER 12, 1996, HE WAS AT HOME INTOXICATED AND HAD BEEN DRINKING MOST OF THE DAY.  AS HE WAS WALKING FROM THE LIVINGROOM TO THE FAMILY ROOM, HE STUMBLED ON A STEP AND FELL.  HE TWISTED HIS BODY SO HIS BACK AND BUTTOCKS WOULD BREAK THE FALL.  WHEN HIS BUTTOCKS HIT THE CARPETED FLOOR, HIS HEAD SNAPPED BACK AND STRUCK THE FLOOR VERY HARD.  HE IMMEDIATELY LOST CONSCIOUSNESS.  M.D.FRU WAS SUMMONED AND UPON THEIR ARRIVAL, ABT. 10MINS LATER, HE HAD REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS AND BECAME COHERANT.  HIS FAMILY SUGGESTED THAT HE BE TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL, BUT HE REFUSED.  ABT. 90MINS LATER, HE CALLED OUT TO HIS FAMILY MEMBERS WHO RESPONDED.  HE COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN HIS RIGHT EAR.  BLOOD WAS NOTED IN HIS RIGHT EAR AND FIRE RESCUE WAS RECONTACTED.  FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER.  WHEN HE LEFT HIS RESIDENCE, HE WAS CONSCIOUS AND APPEARED TO BE COHERENT.