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The whole case has brought up something that has been bothering me lately.  What do people with dogs do about them when they commit suicide? Do they take their dog with them, just leave it to fend for itself, or do people with dogs just not commit suicide?  You almost never read about the dogs in news stories about suicides.  One of the things that has really been bothering me lately is what would happen to my dog Sebastian if I were to die, so it’s hard for me to image just leaving him alone, but I sure can’t imagine killing him.  I did some intertron research and there’s not much out there about this subject.  I did find one science journal article that suggested that it was more common than reported for suicide victims (is victim the correct term?) to take their pets with them, but that news reports just seldom mentioned it.  These things keep me up at night.

15 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Anyone not familiar with The Conversation needs to correct that post haste. It's Hackman at his best, and Coppola in a lean, gritty form that he pretty much abandoned.

Harry Caul is his best performance ever.

it is canon that his character in Enemy of the State is Harry Caul 

On 2/27/2025 at 7:39 AM, Red Five said:

Leave it to Gene Hackman to make it to 93 and die under suspicious circumstances. 

Still too soon.

How on earth would they know someone stole Tylenol? 

Think that’s just clumsily written. Think it means investigators removed those items during their search.

Seems pretty clear to me

Two green cellular devices were removed, along with three medicines: a thyroid medication, Diltiazem – used to treat high blood pressure or chest pain – and Tylenol, according to the inventory released Friday as part of a search warrant affidavit in Santa Fe County court.

Also seized by sheriff’s deputies were records from MyQuest – a medical diagnostics service – and a 2025 monthly planner, it says.

2 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

Seems pretty clear to me

nothing is clear

23 hours ago, randomhorn said:

At some point a starving dog will eat its dead owner’s corpse. Food for thought. 

Sure but that would probably take several days. Maybe a week or more. On the other hand a housecat would start eating its owner before the body was cold

43 minutes ago, mr. sunshine said:

Sure but that would probably take several days. Maybe a week or more. On the other hand a housecat would start eating its owner before the body was cold

My dog would need about 5 minutes or until I missed his next feeding 

8 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

The whole case has brought up something that has been bothering me lately.  What do people with dogs do about them when they commit suicide? Do they take their dog with them, just leave it to fend for itself, or do people with dogs just not commit suicide?  You almost never read about the dogs in news stories about suicides.  One of the things that has really been bothering me lately is what would happen to my dog Sebastian if I were to die, so it’s hard for me to image just leaving him alone, but I sure can’t imagine killing him.  I did some intertron research and there’s not much out there about this subject.  I did find one science journal article that suggested that it was more common than reported for suicide victims (is victim the correct term?) to take their pets with them, but that news reports just seldom mentioned it.  These things keep me up at night.


You’re not alone in these thoughts. 

7 hours ago, Lazarus Bocanegra said:

it is canon that his character in Enemy of the State is Harry Caul 

Edward "Brill" Lyle

Sure but that would probably take several days. Maybe a week or more. On the other hand a housecat would start eating its owner before the body was cold

This is why cats are awful
32 minutes ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:


This is why cats are awful

they’re the worst.

the only acceptable reason to have a cat is to keep your dog company. 

1 hour ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:


This is why cats are awful

If hating cats is wrong, I don't want to be right.

And if you really like cats and hate dogs, adopt a raccoon, at least they're fun.

11 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

The whole case has brought up something that has been bothering me lately.  What do people with dogs do about them when they commit suicide? Do they take their dog with them, just leave it to fend for itself, or do people with dogs just not commit suicide?  You almost never read about the dogs in news stories about suicides.  One of the things that has really been bothering me lately is what would happen to my dog Sebastian if I were to die, so it’s hard for me to image just leaving him alone, but I sure can’t imagine killing him.  I did some intertron research and there’s not much out there about this subject.  I did find one science journal article that suggested that it was more common than reported for suicide victims (is victim the correct term?) to take their pets with them, but that news reports just seldom mentioned it.  These things keep me up at night.

I would find it difficult to be suicidal with a dog. They give me something to live for when things are shit.

I have specific instructions for who should get my dogs if something should happen to me, and enough money dedicated to that person taking care of them. 

So, if they'd been dead since the 17th, and the dog had been in a crate without food or water for that length of time, it probably explains the dog.

5 hours ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:


This is why cats are awful

An old lady lived across the street from us in my youth.  Estranged from her crazy daughter.  She had over 30 cats in her house.  You could smell it in the street.  She died.  The cats ate most of her.  
 

the worst are feral cats and the fucked up folks that harbor them.  Begging on Nextdoor for food for their colony.  Ihhh if they’re feral they’re wild.  You just have a flock of outside cats eating your food.  They are an ecodisaster right up with feral hogs, zebra mussels, tegu lizards, and fire ants.  The shelters spend good dog money on sterilizing feral cats instead of processing them into food for the dogs.  Should be open season on them all year long.  

On 2/27/2025 at 2:24 PM, mchookem said:

how do you not even mention Unforgiven?? :P (ETA this was response to Rex's list, i took too long responding lol)

 

sigh. i've been preparing myself for a few years for the onslaught of losing some of the absolute best Hollywood has ever produced...Eastwood (95), Duvall (94, my heart will break!), Pacino (85), DeNiro (82), Nicholson (88), Freeman (89), Judi Dench (90), Dustin Hoffman (88), Ellen Burstyn (92)...

i mean these folks are really old. and they are arguably the best ever, not just in my lifetime. 

Hackman was on this list. he stole every scene he was in.

weird circumstances, hopefully nothing really nefarious happened. 

So we're just assuming Dick Van Dyke (99) is immortal now?

3 hours ago, wutang75 said:

Cats ate her face.

Defeated? Undefeated?

Haven't seen anyone mention Bite the Bullet. Underrated,

 

Where did that dog piss and shit on that submarine?

10 minutes ago, Deej said:

Where did that dog piss and shit on that submarine?

Wherever it wanted to 

they’re the worst.
the only acceptable reason to have a cat is to keep your dog company. 
And to punt when your sports teams fuck up
18 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

An old lady lived across the street from us in my youth.  Estranged from her crazy daughter.  She had over 30 cats in her house.  You could smell it in the street.  She died.  The cats ate most of her.  
 

the worst are feral cats and the fucked up folks that harbor them.  Begging on Nextdoor for food for their colony.  Ihhh if they’re feral they’re wild.  You just have a flock of outside cats eating your food.  They are an ecodisaster right up with feral hogs, zebra mussels, tegu lizards, and fire ants.  The shelters spend good dog money on sterilizing feral cats instead of processing them into food for the dogs.  Should be open season on them all year long.  

Haha. I worked at an office that backed up to a small bayou. Every day at dusk this fucking weirdo couple would drive up and feed the feral cats. Had to be about 50 of them. 
 

I remain shocked the property manager tolerated it. 

On 2/27/2025 at 2:24 PM, mchookem said:

how do you not even mention Unforgiven?? :P (ETA this was response to Rex's list, i took too long responding lol)

 

sigh. i've been preparing myself for a few years for the onslaught of losing some of the absolute best Hollywood has ever produced...Eastwood (95), Duvall (94, my heart will break!), Pacino (85), DeNiro (82), Nicholson (88), Freeman (89), Judi Dench (90), Dustin Hoffman (88), Ellen Burstyn (92)...

i mean these folks are really old. and they are arguably the best ever, not just in my lifetime. 

Hackman was on this list. he stole every scene he was in.

weird circumstances, hopefully nothing really nefarious happened. 

Petula Clark is still performing at 88 https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5260799/petula-clark-teases-london-show-60-years-after-downtown-made-her-a-star-in-the-u-s

Morgan Freeman to do the honors for Hackman at the Oscars. Greatness befitting greatness. 

On 2/28/2025 at 11:40 AM, GreenspointTexas said:

If his wife committed suicide after finding him dead, you would think she would at least let the dog outside ?

Dog gotta eat…


This is why cats are awful
This is why cats are survivors. And if I'm dead & gone any of my pets are free to harvest me if it means they can survive until help arrives.

RIP to one of the best. 

Everyone always accounts the English Bob beating and the end of Unforgiven for memoriable scenes, but when he describes the shoot out at the Blue Bottle Saloon is such an darkly funny moment that captures how legends are created and grow.  Unforgiven remains to this day my favorite film and Hackman is the engine that drives the movie so Clint and the other actors can shine around him.  He's undoubtly cruel and violent, but he's not the legal villian of the movie, Munny is by every measure, no matter how empowering the final shootout makes us feel.

Daggett: "You see, if old Corky had've had two guns, instead of just a big dick, he would have been there right to the end to defend himself."

 

23 hours ago, futureman said:

so when will we know the truth about what happened?

probably next Tuesday.

Watched the In Memoriam from the Oscar's a lot of legendary performers gone from us this past year and with Hackman's passing. 

On 2/28/2025 at 7:45 PM, rage-a-holic said:

If hating cats is wrong, I don't want to be right.

And if you really like cats and hate dogs, adopt a raccoon, at least they're fun.

I love both. Anybody that gets off on terrorizing small animals is a piece of shit in my book.

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