Hackman Cause of Death

[HawkeyeLinus]

Her physical health, at the time was certainly an indicator. Medical assistance could certainly have helped her. Perhaps healed her and prolonged her time with her husband. But, she made a choice/decision and, there were consequences (Crap! I sound like a broken record! Sorry.). A sad story to be sure but, one can't simply overlook the choices made. Sometimes the caregiver needs to care for themselves in order to continue on. I'm not judging mind you, simply commenting from my own experiences.

If I'd come up sick during my wife's illness I might have made the same sort of decision. Putting another's care over over your own is admirable but, in this case, it was also tragic.

But that's what's disturbing IMO about this whole morbid second guessing of their situation - nobody knows how "sick" she was before she succumbed or what she thought she had, depending on how long she felt ill - sure, if she'd gone to see a doctor, who knows, but she didn't. That doesn't mean an otherwise healthy 65 year old woman needs "assistance" in the home or calling in the home - and most folks that age and older simply don't.

I'll never discount anyone's experiences, and honestly wasn't questioning yours in any way, but was responding to the claim that just because someone is a senior they should have had assistance as part of their regular living at their home. Just no.

When or whether to call a doctor a different question and we'll never know the answers to the what ifs.

 

[Briar Lee]

In the long history of celebrity couples from Lombard and Gable to Bogie and Bacall and Liz and Dick and George and Tammy and Taylor Swift and the Football Player for the Chiefs, I honestly cannot remember a love story of more devotion, than Betsy and Gene Hackman.

True he made some great movies after The French Connection, but his greatest role was the man who talked a Steinway player in a slinky dress into a lifetime of only playing it for Gene.

Sort of a Vivian and Edward in reverse.