The two-time world champion, a heavy smoker, was found dead in his flat in Belfast earlier today.
Recent newspaper pictures showed a painfully thin Higgins after his hopes of having surgery to get new teeth had been dashed.
Higgins lost all his teeth during his cancer treatment but was not deemed fit enough to have the surgery.
His weight had reportedly plummeted to only seven stone as he had to have all his food pureed because eating in a normal fashion had become excruciating.
Friends of the controversial snooker legend had raised around £20,000 to enable Higgins to have the surgery in Spain. However, he was deemed too frail to undergo the operation by the Spanish medics.
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