Health Issues
In 1997 Pena was severely injured after his bedroom caught fire. He suffered smoke inhalation and was in a coma for four days.
Pena suffered from diabetes. He also waged a long battle with pancreatic illness, and was originally mis-diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He began chemotherapy treatments and doctors gave him six months to live. In 2000 he was properly diagnosed with pancreatitis, a life-threatening illness.
Pena died in his San Francisco, California, apartment of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis on October 1, 2005.
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