For some reason I always assumed he was a girl. Sorry to hear that, remember the name clearly, he was fairly active on here.
Useless to speculate what killed him, we probably all can imagine what did him, probably not a car or old age as SHM said.
R.I.P. hope you find Mugs and Ponti in the otherworld and they have settled well and introduce to all the greats of the past of have passed away.
After Ponti died I had a very intense MXE trip where I'm convinced I managed to have a contact with his post-phisical form, I do believe in the after life, there's probably a pub in heaven just for EADDers.
Another sad loss.