[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

More second-hand smoke BS...

[jocon307]

Some folks can't wait to climb on a corpse, can they? How about all the entertainers from years gone by, who really did spend years in truly smoke filled night clubs, and yet did not die at 44 from lung cancer?

This is truly a tragedy, but I doubt it has much scientific value re: second hand smoke or even first hand smoke.

I think STRESS might be a factor though.

[fieldmarshaldj]

We don't know for 100% what caused Mrs. Reeve's lung cancer, but second-hand is not bullcrap, it did kill my grand-aunt who was in a house full of smokers and never once fired one up herself. At least she lived to almost 90.

[Banjoguy]

....don't think it's BS.

Nightclubs were notorious for foul air, especially cigarette smoke which sometimes could make your eyes water. I worked clubs for a while and after a worknight during my shower, the black residue would pour out of my nose and a mouth gargle would reveal more black residue in the back of my throat. My entire body and clothes would stink.

The club smoke density was substantially higher than the casual exposure you would get in say, the home environment. You breathed it in and your lungs acted like filter...you 'smoked' whether you liked it or not.

Sadly some of my musician friends have been afflicted with this particular cancer.

[danamco]

Some eulogies I read on line:
His own report was that he briefly heeded some people’s advice to pray. “It didn’t help,” he said as though God should bend a special ear to heal someone such as himself. He eventually chose to be a Unitarian – a “religion” that pretty much leaves it up to you what to believe or not believe. He didn’t believe in a living, hearing God.

Reeve was fortunate. He had considerable resources. Money, friends, the ear of the media were his. He used it all to advantage. There was a natural outflow of that advantage to those who researched spinal cord injuries and hope to those who had them. Always, though, I saw the ultimate prize he sought was for him. I always used the word “hero” to describe those who selflessly acted on behalf of others. Once again, Superman had become simply another guy.

The desperation showed most when research into fetal stem cells was announced as a potential cure. Suddenly, Superman became a cannibal. He decided to help himself to the weak, rather than help the weak. If it would save his own life, he would gladly dismantle unborn babies for the materials to do it. When I heard that, Superman died once again.

Now it has finally ended. Christopher Reeve is the late Superman. He died without morals and without God. He was no hero, only a man scrambling to save his own life at any cost.

As Jesus said in Matthew 16: 26, “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”


On TV in September, Oprah Winfrey asked if he thought he would ever walk again, he said he thought he would. And what if you won't be able, she asked. "Then I won't walk again," the humanist and pragmatist responded. In 1998 on a Larry King telecast, he had been asked the same, and he said he would. When King asked him if with paralysis he had any sexual feelings, Reeve jovially hinted yes.
When asked outright about God, Reeve was discreet, saying in the King telecast that "while I don't believe in God per se, I believe in spirituality. And I believe that spirituality actually is automatically within ourselves, but we have to learn how to access it, and what that is, is realizing there is a higher power; there is ... more than just us, there is an inner strength, there is something, y'know, that comes from -- I don't know where exactly it comes from, but it's -- it really is the best that humans can be and perhaps what it is -- perhaps really what it is is love."
Reeve's brother, Benjamin, a non-practicing Massachusetts lawyer, told a reporter in 1997 that Christopher didn't get his courage from God. "We're devout atheists, so that wasn't it," he added.
On Oct. 12, two days after he died of cardiac arrest, the Reeve Family commemorated his death in a small ceremony at his Pound Ridge, N.Y., home. It was officiated by a Unitarian Universalist minister. One hundred family members and close friends attended the service. The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Founda

[cricket]

More second-hand smoke BS.

Agree. . .stress may have weakened her immune system. . .do not buy the 'second-hand smoke'. . .The world would be more than half it's population size; were this the case. . .