Gene Hackman death

I've read that the profile of women that kill themselves generally take care to be found or make sure people don't stumble on their body/leave a mess for others to clean up. It would be an odd suicide, leaving the dog to die, pills on the ground and your bodies exposed like that.

 

Yeah - kinda hard to come up with a lot of explanations to explain the little that we know.....

 

As another actor said….. Hackman didn’t make a bad movie. Guy was fantastic. That recent picture of him in the blue shirt walking around with his wife doesn’t even resemble the GH I remember

 

Not many people look great at 95.

 

I have to be honest. My initial reaction to learning Gene Hackman died was “holy shit, Gene Hackman was still alive!!!???” He apparently retired from acting 20 years ago.

Not the first time I saw a Hollywood obit and had that type of thought. If he was dealing with issues it wouldn’t be surprising if he wanted to check out at 95. But the wife and dog? I assumed a gas leak or carbon monoxide poisoning. Maybe he was having issues the wife could not deal with and it was she who “pulled the plug” (proverbially), but even then I can’t believe they’d leave the dog crated to die in the worst way. The dog is what makes the least sense if it was some type of mercy-suicide.

 

It is possible one of them died, and the sight of the other caused a 2nd medical emergency. Esp if it was the 60yo wife who died first, leaving the 95 year old. I’m sure that has happened more than a few times to elderly couples, and it would explain the dog.

As carbon monoxide has been ruled out, it’s hard to come up with anything else that doesn’t involve foul play.