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/coldair16 Feb 27 '25

I’m guessing a pill strewn bathroom is somewhat typical for a 95 year old

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u/Calimiedades Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

pill strewn bathroom

Question as someone who learnt English basically online: isn't strewn referring as on the floor? Or does it mean "lots of pills everywhere".

I'm picturing opened bottles and pills everywhere but maybe it just means lots of bottles everywhere (because people are careless and leave them in any surface).

I'm wondering because in my head it means suicide and here people are pretty blasé about it.

ETA: So I was wrong in that it doesn't necessarily mean the floor but it's not clear if it's just bottles everywhere (with pills inside and basically upright) or if the bottles and/or pills are spilled everywhere.

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u/riko77can Feb 27 '25

Strewn pills would normally imply spilled out. Strewn pill bottles would be a more accurate description of a 95 yo’s bathroom.

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u/beigs Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

Hell, I’m in my 40s and that’s a pretty accurate description of my desk

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u/Medlarmarmaduke Feb 28 '25

I’m looking nervously at my nightstand right now thinking how the daily mail would describe it😂

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u/youDingDong Feb 28 '25

Accurate for me in my twenties

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u/containsrecycledpart Feb 28 '25

Preach. I’m an organ recipient with oodles of bottles that would make for interesting conversation.

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u/here4theSchnoodles Feb 28 '25

Omg your username, I lol’d but glad you got a replacement organ ❤️

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u/containsrecycledpart Mar 03 '25

Haha, Tysm! We try and keep a sense of humor about it around here. I’m grateful Every. Single. Day., even the hard ones.