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.

  • otto@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    OK, if she died, literally, days before he did, why was nobody found a dead in the house until many days later?

    Did he sit by her side, while she was dead, for days before his heart finally gave up? Did he only come home right before finding her and then dying too?

    While this report answered a lot of questions, it certainly raises many others that have not yet been addressed…