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I specifically said I wasn’t suggesting he was murdered, a clown. What i did suggest is he should be been hooked up to a heart monitor 24-7 to ensure he lived through the election.

Now you call Scalia a clown?

If this man were seriously ill, he should have been strapped to an I.V pumping him full of whatever has kept Castro - and for that matter Ginsberg - alive until November 4, 2016.

What i did suggest is he should be been hooked up to a heart monitor 24-7 to ensure he lived through the election.

FWIW doctors don't just strap people to IV's without a very good reason (and I'm guessing perhaps you were being sarcastic with that comment?) but if not, I'm not sure what type of IV he should have been hooked up to and neither do you.

Nor do doctors hook people up to a heart monitor 24-7 even if they have a risk for a high risk for having a heart attack or stroke. People are only hooked up to a heart monitor while in the hospital and in some cases, are hooked up to a portable monitor for short periods of time, several days to a week to diagnose irregular heartbeats.

He was 79 years old, overweight (had gained a lot of weight in the last 10 years or so) and was a long time cigarette smoker. We do not know if he had high blood pressure and or was on medication for it, but that wouldn't be surprising.

But even if he had HBP or otherwise at high risk for a heart attack or stroke, there is nothing an IV or being hooked up to a heart monitor would have done to prevent it.

I think it is likely, given he said before he went to bed that he "wasn't feeling well", that he had a massive heart attack or a massive stroke, that it happened so suddenly that he was not able to call for help or just died in his sleep without being aware of what was happing. It happens.

And BTW, not "feeling well" could have been anything from just feeling a bit tired or slightly lightheaded or having what he might have reasonably thought was some indigestion after a heavy meal. In the case of a lot of fatal and massive heart attacks or strokes, there are often not a lot of symptoms beforehand or before it is too late to do anything.

Really? He was under no obligation to be tracked 24/7.

He passed in his sleep. A doctor was not needed in the morning.