Gene Hackman Cause of Death: Actor Died a Week After Wife Betsy Arakawa
variety.com
Gene Hackman died of cardiovascular disease about a week after his wife died of hantavirus, according to the New Mexico medical examiner.

Gene Hackman, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, lived in the house with his dead wife for a week before he died.

Of the three dogs living in the house, one died because it was locked in a carrier and therefore probably starved to death. The two free-living dogs were the only ones to survive.

  • @taiyangEnglish
    38•2 days ago

    To add a note, they’re famously private people, hence living out there in the first place. It’s not that unusual to go unnoticed when you live on a gated compound and don’t like socializing with your neighbors. From what I could tell they didn’t even know who those two were.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•6 hours ago

      This is why I find it sad that people have ceased to be so communal and supportive anymore. People become siloed and individualistic, and there’s nobody to check up on them, and their neighbor doesn’t even know who they are. :(