     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED VIA TELEPHONE FROM THE DECEASED'S WIFE, THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY SUFFERED FROM ARTHRITIS, A SLIPPED DISK SINCE AN ACCIDENT AT WORK MANY YEARS AGO, IN CONNECTICUT.  HAD BEEN PRESCRIBED NAPROXEN FOR THE PAIN. ON AUGUST 10, 1996 PM., UPON RETURNING FROM A TRIP OUT OF TOWN HE SAT TO WATCH TELEVISION.  SHORTLY AFTER, THE WIFE WAS AWAKENED BY THE DECEASED WHO WAS SCREAMING FOR HELP COMPLAINING OF PAIN IN THE BACK, SO BAD THAT HE COULD NOT RESIST IT, AND CAUSED HIM TO HAVE AN EMESIS.  WIFE TOOK HIM TO C.A.C. - URGENT CARE, WHERE HE WAS GIVEN TWO INJECTIONS, TORADOL AND DEMEROL. A WHILE LATER HE HAD A SEIZURE AND WENT INTO CARDIORESPIRATORY ARREST.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND FOUND HIM IN  P.E.A., HEART RATE OF 40.  CPR WAS STARTED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PALM SPRINGS GENERAL HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE E.R. AT 3:46 AM., UNRESPONSIVE, WITH NO VITAL SIGNS, ON THUMPER.  RESUSCITATION EFFORTS TERMINATED AT 4:20 A.M., WHEN HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
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     ACCORDING TO WIFE, THE DECEASED HAD NO OTHER HISTORY EXCEPT FOR THIS ARTHRITIS AND THAT HE HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO GRAPHITE DUE TO WORKING FOR MANY YEARS IN A COMPANY THAT USED THAT SUBSTANCE AND DUE TO THAT HE HAD ONE LUNG AFFECTED.