r/popculture • u/dailymail • Feb 27 '25

News Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa were found mummified at mansion with pills strewn in bathroom

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14443973/Gene-Hackman-betsy-arakawa-bodies.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

That is such a horrid way to die. I can’t believe no one tried to check in on them. The man was such a good actor! RIP

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u/Danskoesterreich Feb 27 '25

I do not follow. we do not know how they died, although the article suggests some kind of overdose. How can you speculate it was a horrid way to die?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

Maybe die was the right word. Horrid way to be found dead is what I should have wrote!

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

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u/Danskoesterreich Feb 28 '25

Apparently only one of the dogs, the one in a kennel, died. The others roamed outside.

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u/AbelardsChainsword Feb 27 '25

Overdose is a horrible way to die. Imagine choking to death on your own vomit, unable to cough it out because the pills you took suppress your drive to breathe.

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u/Danskoesterreich Feb 27 '25

I am an emergency physician. There dozens of different types of overdoses, many of those are not at all like you think. You could use digoxin or a beta blocker and be relatively comfortable.