Illuminati-R-Us

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.

Such bizarre circumstances...

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.

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.

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

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

A certain Austrian painter, for example.

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.

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.

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.