RIP, Popeye Doyle

[Мастер]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewkkkvkzn9o

[Lance]

[g-one]

I really enjoyed his work, whether playing good guy or bad (he excelled at the latter).
Was surprised to see he was 95 and hadn't done a film for the last 20 years.
Sad news.

[Lance]

Such bizarre circumstances...

[Arneb]

A great artist. I had no idea he was that old and that he hadn't been in a movie for 20 years - you see him all the time over here when you're zapping through the channels. Still, a terribly sad way to go, lying dead for more than a week without anyone checking in on you.

[Richard A]

Isn't it! And especially after a life like his.

Though I suspect the full facts have yet to come out. Him and his wife both dead, together with one of their three dogs. At first I suspected a suicide pact - who knows what health issues he might have had at 95? But while I've heard of people killing their dog before ending their life, it doesn't make sense that he / his wife would have killed one but not the other two. We'll no doubt see what emerges.

[Heid the Ba]

Odd that they seem to have lain there for ten days or so and no-one checked, not friends nor the loving children.

[Heid the Ba]

But while I've heard of people killing their dog before ending their life, . . .

A certain Austrian painter, for example.

[Richard A]

Hmmm, I wasn't thinking of him. (In fact, I'd forgotten he had a dog.) Rather, less notable but more recent individuals.

On the other hand, a former colleague died in the company of his dogs alone, albeit that a person did find him fairly soon afterwards. And no, the dogs were not the cause of his death.

[g-one]

The dog was in it's cage in the closet, so probably died due to lack of water.
He had a pacemaker, she was found in a way that I had thought suggested she collapsed while taking her pills. Possibly she had some event and he found her and his heart couldn't take it?
But now I read that she was found getting his meds.
So probably she found him collapsed and either had a medical event or fell while retrieving his pills.

[Lance]

So they way we're hearing it, she actually died of Hantavirus first. And he was so consumed by Alzheimer's, he was likely unaware of her passing. Then ~9 days later, he died of a heart attack.