Posted on 03/08/2025 12:52:28 PM PST by Jim W N
Gene Hackman may not have realized his wife, Betsy Arakawa Hackman, was dead during his final weeks due to his advanced Alzheimer’s, according to forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden.
The legendary actor died due to hypertensive atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer's disease as a significant contributing factor, New Mexico officials confirmed Friday.
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I hope he had Jesus and is with the Lord in Heaven.
Amen.
Having Alzheimer’s disease and advanced heart disease, I wonder why he didn’t have in-home care or visiting nurse’s care. It appears that he lived for about a week after his wife died.
Most accounts suggested his wife was his at home care person. She was 30 years younger and apparently very healthy. Most people don’t see hantavirus as a likely way to go out. They probably would have gone on just fine til his heart gave out.
I like how everyone jumped on this like it was some deep mystery. This guy was what? 96 years old?
This stuff happens all the time when both end up dead on the same day or one checking out not long after the first. It’s all part of the deal.
Very similar to a case in our town last year. Husband and wife in their 70s were found dead in their home after no one heard from them. CO poisoning was the first thought, but two dogs were still alive. Tests determined both died of “natural causes” while sitting in chairs in the living room. The wife couldn’t walk, and needed her husband to help her move around. The best guess is that after helping his wife into a recliner, he sat down on the couch and had a heart attack. She was unable to get out of the chair on her own, she didn’t have a phone within reach, and she died a few days later of starvation. Not a pleasant way to go.
That makes sense. Thanks.
She was 30 years younger than him. She wasn’t feeble at all.
You make a bad call on this one.
And? The graveyards are full of people in their sixties. And much younger. Don't believe me, go look.
“Very similar to a case in our town last year. Husband and wife in their 70s were found dead in their home after no one heard from them. CO poisoning was the first thought, but two dogs were still alive. Tests determined both died of “natural causes” while sitting in chairs in the living room. The wife couldn’t walk, and needed her husband to help her move around. The best guess is that after helping his wife into a recliner, he sat down on the couch and had a heart attack. She was unable to get out of the chair on her own, she didn’t have a phone within reach, and she died a few days later of starvation. Not a pleasant way to go.”
I was proud of my parents when they decided, on their own, without being pressured, to move into an assisted care facility. 9 Months later, my mother, who had dementia, was dead. My father still lives in the facility
Randy Quaid posted that he knows the Hollywood studios murdered him. (LOL!) They were tired of writing checks for the royalties from his movies.
My brother-in-law has dementia. When my sister fell off a ladder he came out to see what the noise was, stepped over her, looked around and went back inside. Luckily she was fine just dazed.
Terrible story.
What killed the dog?
My mother had a stroke, was paralyzed, couldn’t speak (which was torture for a lively and social person like her) had numerous infections related to her paralysis, and only died after withering away for nearly 12 months.
Dying a few days after my wife, together in our own home, probably unaware and at the age of 96 isn’t at all a bad way to go.....
“What killed the dog?”
Died of thirst and/or starvation. Was shut in a kennel after returning from the vet’s that day.
the quiet and the dead...
Well his estate should be getting another check.
I just watched The French Connection on Prime a couple nights ago.
I hadn’t seen it in at least twenty years.
I don’t think the studios would make a movie like that today.
It portrayed pretty much every Black person in the movie as drug users.
After that my wife wanted to watch Midnight Cowboy with John Voit and Dustin Hoffman.
“I just watched The French Connection on Prime a couple nights ago.”
The only movie I ever slept through, beginning to end. Boring.
Tragic but Gene did make it to 95. Most of us should be so lucky.
It also highlights the damage mice can do. I did not know much about Hantavirus. I have now learned not to be so cavalier in dealing with mice and their droppings.
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