ESMIN Green, the Jamaican woman who died on the floor of Kings County Hospital in New York, will be buried today after a service at the Duxes Seventh-day Adventist Church in St Catherine at mid-day.

Her body was flown to Jamaica last Tuesday after a memorial service held in Brooklyn, New York.

Sebert Dennis leaves the Duxes Seventh-day Adventist church in Duxes, St Catherine, where todays' funeral service for his stepdaughter Esmin Green will be held.

Sebert Dennis, Green's stepfather, told the Sunday Observer that the family had a prayer meeting at his house in Duxes on Friday night. He said they were also expecting a large gathering of mourners today, and that a tent had been erected outside the church to accommodate the overflow. He also noted that time had been allotted in the programme for tributes.

The City of New York is footing the bill for the funeral.

Since her death, Green's children announced that they would be filing a US$25-million lawsuit against the city.

The family has retained high-profile lawyer Sanford Rubenstein as their legal counsel. He is the former partner of renowned defence attorney, the late Johnny Cochrane. Rubenstein is currently representing the Bell family in the controversial case where Sean Bell was shot to death by police officers on his wedding day.

In the meantime, according to The Associated Press, the medical examiner has reported that Green "was killed by blood clots, caused by a long period of physical inactivity".

Green, 49, had been sitting in a waiting room at the psychiatric ward of Kings County Hospital for nearly 24 hours when she collapsed from her chair and died on June 19.

She lay on the floor for almost an hour before hospital staff finally realised that she was in distress.

AP said the medical examiner pointed out that Green died of pulmonary thromboemboli, which are blood clots that form in the legs and travel through the bloodstream to the lungs.

"The clots were due to deep vein thrombosis, caused by physical inactivity," said AP. "It complicated an underlying psychological illness: chronic paranoid schizophrenia."

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