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Gene Hackman and wife's causes of death revealed. (The wife passed first)
MSN.com ^ | 3/11/25 | ABC news

Posted on 03/07/2025 1:38:17 PM PST by CaptainK

The causes of deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were revealed by authorities on Friday, more than one week after the couple was mysteriously found dead their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home.

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She died on 2/11 from complications due to hantavirus and he on 2/18 from a heart attack.
1 posted on 03/07/2025 1:38:17 PM PST by CaptainK
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To: CaptainK

What about the dog?


2 posted on 03/07/2025 1:39:06 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: CaptainK

And he left her on the floor for a week?


3 posted on 03/07/2025 1:39:42 PM PST by Fai Mao ( Democrats need to go to prison.)
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To: CaptainK

Apparently he had advanced Alzheimers as well.


4 posted on 03/07/2025 1:40:26 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Carry_Okie

Deprivation, probably. It was locked in the closet.


5 posted on 03/07/2025 1:40:57 PM PST by Jonty30 (I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
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To: CaptainK

I suspect Gene had a bad patch of Dementia. How does one go a week of wondering where your pudding delivery service is?


6 posted on 03/07/2025 1:41:18 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: CaptainK

I always thought she went first because I couldn’t conceive of her not reaching out for help if he was dying or committing suicide over his death.

It made more sense that if she died he really wouldn’t know how to handle the situation because of cognitive loss.


7 posted on 03/07/2025 1:41:26 PM PST by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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I’m not buying this BS. So his wife supposedly died a week before him and he never reported it?

And yes, how’d the dog die?


8 posted on 03/07/2025 1:41:51 PM PST by Kevin in California (EP)
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That’s what I suspected. She died first. He (and the dog) were basically stranded, unable to provide for themselves.


9 posted on 03/07/2025 1:41:54 PM PST by mbrfl
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She was probably his caretaker and he was not in his right mind. Sounds like a horrible way to go out. Poor souls.


10 posted on 03/07/2025 1:42:36 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Carry_Okie

She might have been tending to the dogs when she passed out. Two dogs were out and one was left in the kennel.


11 posted on 03/07/2025 1:42:43 PM PST by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: Kevin in California

He was elderly and infirmed. He might even have been unable to walk without assistance.


12 posted on 03/07/2025 1:43:06 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: CaptainK

The entire story makes zero sense..Hantavirus you get from being exposed to rodent poo, so she got exposed, starting feeling ill(Symptoms are similar to the flu) so she felt like she had the flu but didnt call anyone to help take care of him, a caregiver, someone, housekeeper? So she dies and he’s so far gone with alzheimer’s that he doesn’t know how to get himself a bite to eat(There was no food in his stomach, completely empty, also had severe dehydration)..and the poor dog died because after she died he had no clue how to open the cage to let him out..yeah this is just so freakin weird


13 posted on 03/07/2025 1:44:06 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Kevin in California

He was 95 years old and she was his only caregiver. I think he had some form of dementia.


14 posted on 03/07/2025 1:45:29 PM PST by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: Fai Mao

He had severe Alzheimers, he would have no idea of what to do. He may not have known who she was.


15 posted on 03/07/2025 1:45:55 PM PST by madison10
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You beat me to it, but yes. This is a surprise. We’ve had a couple of Alzheimer’s patients in the near reaches of my family, but none has lived to 95 and all were in assisted care when they passed.


16 posted on 03/07/2025 1:45:57 PM PST by sphinx
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Why was the front door open for two weeks?


17 posted on 03/07/2025 1:46:03 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Still doesn't make any sense.

No one called to check on either of them--in the 15 days between her death and the maintenance guys finding them?

18 posted on 03/07/2025 1:47:11 PM PST by silent_jonny ("it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening." ~ President Trump 7-14-24)
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To: CaptainK

Someone should have been checking on them daily. Sounds like elder abuse.


19 posted on 03/07/2025 1:47:26 PM PST by madison10
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To: Sarah Barracuda

There was a Dr just on who said victims of the virus sometimes don’t realize how sick they really are. They think they just have the flu. It rapidly starts to effect your breathing.


20 posted on 03/07/2025 1:48:22 PM PST by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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