Posted on 10/11/2004 1:42:46 AM PDT by daylate-dollarshort
Actor Christopher Reeve Dead at 52
Monday, October 11, 2004
BEDFORD, NY — Christopher Reeve, the star of the "Superman" movies whose near-fatal riding accident nine years ago turned him into a worldwide advocate for spinal cord research, died Sunday of heart failure, his publicist said. He was 52.
Reeve fell into a coma Saturday after going into cardiac arrest while at his New York home, his publicist, Wesley Combs told The Associated Press by phone from Washington, D.C., on Sunday night.
Reeve was being treated at Northern Westchester Hospital for a pressure wound, a common complication for people living with paralysis. In the past week, the wound had become severely infected, resulting in a serious systemic infection.
"On behalf of my entire family, I want to thank Northern Westchester Hospital for the excellent care they provided to my husband," Dana Reeve, Christopher's wife, said in a statement. "I also want to thank his personal staff of nurses and aides, as well as the millions of fans from around the world who have supported and loved my husband over the years."
Reeve broke his neck in May 1995 when he was thrown from his horse during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Va.
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Sad news.
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For seating systems they have what you decribed, my son uses a "Contour U" seating system where they prop him up in a bean bag type system such the air out so it is custom to his body and then they cast or make a mold of the bag ship the casts of to the factory and make cushions that are then mounted on his wheelchair.
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Not many have someone or knowledge to get to clinics.
Just saw on the News on the Christian Channel Kerry says "I will be in that office(t the WH) every single day"
Then the commentator said "Mercy" and we busted up.
Kerry doesn't make it to his Senate seat most the time from what we have heard.
He is a jerk, Kerry that is.
Inner secret of the news biz. If you have a celebrity that may die unexpectedly, most reasonably competent news producers keep an obit ready on file, with only the last-minute bad news details to be filled in. This is especially true in broadcast news, where time is everything; a little less so in print where there is a more orderly (by comparison only!) system of deadlines.
It's not a complete obit, but it is a shell containing facts that no one will have much time to check when the black day comes, and it can be written and edited better when it is written in advance. Obituaries are a good assignment for bringing along a tyro or an intern -- and they are good for keeping an old pro's research and writing chops in tune.
Every once in a while an obit shell leaks out, especially onto the web. Sometimes it's a human error -- sometimes it's a cannabis-steeped webmaster's idea of funny, which is a lot less funny to (1) anybody who isn't stoned and (2) the subject of the obit, regardless of whether he or she is stoned.
Most people find the practice a little creepy, but would be more upset if an obit ran with wrong information (judging from reader complaints, the two parts of the paper that actually get read are the obits and the funnies).
Obituaries exist to note the passing of significant persons (defined a little differently at every paper or station) and to inform people of why that person was significant. For instance (and to restore the thread to track), many people knew of Christopher Reeve in the context of the Superman films but were unaware of his injury. Many of those who knew about his injury didn't know he was stil working up until his death. For instance, having neither a TV nor much of an interest in metal music, I barely knew who Ozzy Osbourne was and cannot recall having ever heard of Sharon, until this flap broke out.
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Thanks for posting that. The book was outstanding and the movie was true to the book. Excellent acting, no disappointment.
I always watch it when it is on the cable..very few movies have that power!
Glad I saved it! ;>)
You guys want to hear stuff that tickles your ears. Sure, the guy wasn't a quitter. He did his best to advance research into cures for what he suffered. Paul McCartney and his late wife got real involved with breast cancer once she was diagnosed. Nancy Reagan and Ron Reagan go on about stem cell research to cure Alzheimer's as it has inflicted pain on their family. It's amazing how involved people get with causes when disease attacks their own.
Using the stem cells of unborn children(I know, they've been killed already)supports abortion efforts in this country. It advances the agenda. Is supporting abortion rights, which is wrong in the eyes of most conservatives, worth adding a few years of life here on earth or improving the quality of life for your loved ones or yourself?
The next step; keep the babies alive after terminating the pregnancy and grow them in the laboratory. So many babies that were born could use a non defective heart or some other organ. How can one look in the sad faces of the parents of a new born baby that will die without a donor's heart when a human fetus could have provided one for them, if it weren't for those pesky conservatives.
Perhaps for you, God does not exist, and you will not face judgment. For me, He does exist, and I cannot condone in any way the shedding of innocent blood, for I will be judged.
So many on this thread gush honor on him that I have to check to see if this is Free Republic. This guy was an active part of the continuing agenda to de-humanize people to farm animals. Sean Penn is a very talented actor, why don't we gush honor on him now so he can see it before he dies?
I sincerely hope he rests well with the Lord, there could have been a deathbed conversion.
When someone famous dies my husband always asks why were they so wonderful in death than they were in life? I saw threads on FR not to long ago and people were flaming him on his views of stem cell research. Suddenly he's a wonderful human being. If you would have said these things while he was alive no one would have given it a second thought.
I'm sorry he died so young, and saddened that he fell off a horse and I certainly admire him for his courage for the last 10 years. However, I say good riddance to his loony leftist views and hatefulness toward Bush.
I know. Strange too, that my Christianity is called into question when I don't join in on the gush fest for this guy.
Prayers up.
Beautiful devolve! He is on his 'supreme adventure' now.
Yes, it's very sad about Reeves. I just hate it that someone filled his mind with the certainty that embrionic stem cells would cure him!
Simple common decency does not a gush fest make. There have been some really reprehensible posts on these threads since his death.
Just as I arrived home and was about to turn off my radio, the local talk show host indicated he was getting a story from a station back east (which he said has a reputation for credibility) reporting that today Kerry claimed to have received a phone message on his voice mail from a call on Saturday made by Christopher Reeve, thanking Kerry for having raised the stem cell issue in Friday's debate. Of course, the only problem with this is that Reeve went comatose on Thursday.
Does anyone have confirmation of this story?
Beyond that, his death means nothing. He wasn't contributing anything in the past decade except some political input. There's no shortage of that, even after he's gone.
It was a tragic accident which resulted in a prolonged suffering and death. I hate that.
But I'm at least as smart as he was, although admittedly not as good-looking. My death and the lack of my voice on political matters won't be missed, probably even at this forum for long, if at all.
The only reason this thread exists is because Reeves was a movie celebrity, something which we all know does not bestow a crown of wisdom on the star.
Even sadder is John Kerry's pitiful monopolizing of his death.
devolve wrote me about that earlier today and said exactly what you did. You might ask him as he seemed to know about it.
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