     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE DECEASED'S DAUGHTER, VIA TELEPHONE, THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1996 P.M., BY HIS SON.   HE HAD BEEN COMPLAINING OF ABDOMINAL PAIN IN THE PREVIOUS TWO DAYS, BUT AT THAT TIME WAS FEELING BETTER.   ON DECEMBER 1,1996,  THE REST OF THE FAMILY THAT WAS OUT OF TOWN RETURNED HOME AT 3:56 A.M., AND FOUND THE DECEASED EXPIRED SITTING AT DINNING ROOM TABLE, SLUMPED TO HIS LEFT SIDE.  THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT HE HAD BEEN EATING.
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.  EFFORTS TO CONTACT HIS ATTENDING PHYSICIAN WERE FUTILE. 
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    THE DAUGHTER OF THE DECEASED WAS CONTACTED AND SHE ADVISED THAT THE DECEASED WAS SUFFERING WITH A HEART CONDITION (ARRHYTHMIAS) , HAD MILD RENAL FAILURE AND HEPATIC PROBLEMS, PROBABLY DUE TO HIS PAST HISTORY OF HEAVY ETOH ABUSE.  HE REPORTEDLY QUIT DRINKING ABT. THIRTEEN YEARS AGO.  HE WAS ALSO A DIABETIC.   A SYRINGE, CONTAINING WHAT APPEARS TO BE INSULIN WAS FOUND IN THE BATHROOM, AND PACKETS OF SUGAR WERE ON THE FLOOR. (DECEASED USED TO CONSUME PACKETS OF SUGAR WHEN HE FELT HIS SYSTEM NEEDED SO)    WAS CURRENTLY ON INSULIN INJECTABLE, VASOTEC, CLONIDIN, PROCARDIA XL, LANOXIN, LASIX, CLARITIN, AND MONOXYDIL.  HE WAS A MEMBER OF JACKSON MEMORIAL HEALTH PLAN AND WAS BEING TREATED THERE BY DR. NOHR.    
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      JMH PATIENT # 049-35-47. WAS LAST SEEN AT JMH-CLINIC ON APRIL 27,1995. DIAGNOSIS: HYPERTENSI0N, INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS, CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE. OTHER DIAGNOSIS INCLUDED: ARTERIOSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE AND CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE.