Aaron Sachowitz, Mr. Diaman's son, wrote to the Bay Area Reporter from Greece, where he had gone to help his father. Mr. Diaman died of multiple organ failure after emergency surgery to repair a ruptured and likely cancerous tumor in his intestines, his son said."He was a remarkably healthy and fit person up until his hospitalization, walking miles to visit friends or run errands rather than take the bus or metro," Sachowitz wrote.Mr.
Diaman was a longtime San Francisco resident. "He had gone to Greece, first on the island of Ikaria, were his parents were both from, then in Athens, to do genealogical research to continue his work on the many family trees he's pieced together in the last several decades," Sachowitz wrote.Mr.