Originally published at: Family refuses late French actor's request to kill dog - Boing Boing
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Before you ask—no, you can’t have any of your children killed so they can be interred with you either.
You’re dead, bro. You can wait.
“Delon’s children told CNN affiliate BFMTV on Tuesday that the dog will continue to reside in their father’s Douchy residence.”
Hopefully a little less douchey than it used to be now that he’s out of the place.
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Well that’s marginally better than being buried alive with him, I guess?
What an extraordinarily effed-up request, though. I saw plenty of articles describing this guy as a widely beloved actor in France, but I can’t understand how that adoration continued after he gave that interview.
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Solution: cremate the actor, when the dog eventually dies, cremate the dog and mix the ashes in the urn.
You’re welcome.
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Hey Writers Of The Current Timeline, a bit on the nose for Alain Delon to live in a place called Douchy.
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There’s an AI company CEO who’s shaking his head and thinking, “See? We could have helped here.”
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Almost as though he was getting ideas from his Front National pals.
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So… If the dog died first, he would have been snuffed?
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Man Dies Before Getting Through His Fifty-First Dog.
Good.
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We’ve seen him in one film: Le Samouraï
Those who’ve seen it (it’s excellent) may now be entertaining the notion of his character having a dog and arranging for both to be honorably done away with.
(For anyone with even the tiniest itch to watch Le Samouraï for the first time… don’t unblur the spoiler. Just. Don’t.)
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His character in Red Sun is called Gauche, and that’s massively appropriate.
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Yeah, that practice in a few ancient cultures of killing a ruler’s servants when they died so they could serve the ruler in the afterlife died with those cultures. No one needs to be reviving that.
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Empirically, the French public appear to let you get away with a lot if you are deemed culturally relevant.
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Dipping just my pinky-toe into mutant filmgoer territory here: Would you recommend Red Sun?
(BTW: We have his L’Eclisse deep in our watch-pile and still haven’t gotten to it yet. Quel dommage.)
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It’s a cracking Western with a buff Charles Bronson teaming up with Toshiro Mifune’s samurai to chase down bandits with a sword stolen by a sleazy Alain Delon.
Perfect for a Sunday afternoon.
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…in a Western. This we have to see. Thx!!!
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Unless you’re in the dog breeding business, that seems like a lot of dogs. Makes me wonder if “cruelty to animals” wasn’t a new thing for him.
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Maybe throw in some Oscar Meyer wieners, the freshest of his dog’s droppings and an IOU? It’s not going to be an open casket funeral, is it? 
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I posted that story in the Dead Celebrity topic the other day.
It reminded me of this story.
My mother in law died over 30 years ago, her dog was very old and her best buddy, the dog was also my wife’s childhood pet.
My mother in law ended up with cancer and Scleroderma, it wasn’t pleasant.
She asked us to do the same thing, she wanted her dog to go with her. We told her we would take care of it. We lied to her because we thought it best.
Of course we couldn’t follow through but her beloved dog died within a few weeks. She was old but she was healthy.
We believe the dog really missed her best buddy. It was so sad. Animals grieve and get broken hearts to.
My mother in law was also afraid no one would take care of her best friend.
I know 3 of our cats would be fine in new homes but brain tumor kitty was barely able to function before her brain tumor, now with her condition and needing anti seizure medicine at specific times we’d be afraid she would be terrified without us. She would be traumatized in any other home
Tough decision for our daughter if something happened to both of us.
The family made the right choice but sometimes there are other things at play. Not in this case, it just reminded me of another dog we all loved.
Not sure why this ever went public, man died, man wanted to take his beloved pet with him, family decided not to honor his wish because it wouldn’t be right.
No story, let man be remembered for his life work not this one story.
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So an 88-year-old had 51 dogs in his lifetime.
Whats the average lifespan of a dog?
Are we sure some of his previous 50 dogs weren’t, er, taken care of, when he decided he wanted a younger dog?
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