At first, his cause of death was given as heart failure, then it was believed he died of alcohol poisoning until it was revealed by his father that a bilious attack was what led to his death.
[February 2010] I would just about manage to open a laptop. And this I would only be able to do because I saw it on TV. Twitter, Blackberry, iPhone - all of that is foreign to me. I don't have a driver's license either, I am a fossil, or a persistent GDR relic. Or I was [cryonically] frozen in 1956 and only got unfrozen again in 1971. Maybe that's why I am so old-fashioned and withdrawn.