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| grooviebeats |
| quote: | WHITE PLAINS, New York(AP) -- Dana Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her "Superman" husband, Christopher Reeve, through his decade of near-total paralysis, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44.
Reeve, a singer-actress who gave up some of her own career to be one of the nation's best-known caregivers, died late Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center, said Kathy Lewis, president of the Christopher Reeve Foundation.
Reeve had succeeded her husband as chair of the foundation, which funded research into spinal-cord paralysis cures. She announced in August that, while she wasn't a smoker, she had been diagnosed with lung cancer. (Watch CNN announces Reeve's death -- 1:49)
Lewis visited Reeve in the hospital Friday and said Reeve was "tired but with her typical sense of humor and smile, always trying to make other people feel good, her characteristic personality."
"She was a woman with an incredible heart who really put herself out there to help people with disabilities and especially those who are caregivers -- something she knew a lot about," Lewis said.
Four months ago, at a fundraising gala for the foundation, Reeve looked healthy in a long, formal gown and said she was responding well to treatment and her tumor was shrinking.
"I'm beating the odds and defying every statistic the doctors can throw at me," Reeve said then. "My prognosis looks better all the time."
Asked how she kept her spirits up, Reeve said she "had a great model."
"I was married to a man who never gave up," she said.
Christopher Reeve, star of Hollywood's "Superman" movies, became an activist for spinal cord research after a horse-riding accident paralyzed him in 1995. He died October 10, 2004.
Dana Reeve was a constant companion and supporter of her husband during his long ordeal and his work for a cure for spinal cord injuries.
The couple had a 13-year-old son, Will, and Dana Reeve had two grown stepchildren, Matthew and Alexandra.
Reeve, who lived in Pound Ridge, had appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway and regional stages and on the TV shows "Law & Order," "Oz," and "All My Children."
She was on the board of the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, where she met Christopher Reeve doing summer theater, and the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.
A year ago, she won a Mother of the Year award from the American Cancer Society. A society vice president, Dr. Michael Thun, said Reeve "has shown strength and courage in the face of tremendous adversity." Doctors say 1 in 5 women diagnosed with the disease never lit a cigarette.
In addition to her son and step-children, she is survived by her father, Dr. Charles Morosini, and sisters Deborah Morosini and Adrienne Morosini Heilman.
No funeral plans were announced. The family said donations could be made in Dana Reeve's memory to the Christopher Reeve Foundation in Short Hills, New Jersey.
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| nchs09 |
| ncessary to make a thread about it? what for? |
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| grooviebeats |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
ncessary to make a thread about it? what for? |
Its news.. and she had been a influential person during the time before her husband passing and even after. His foundation has done great things for research and great advancements have been made in that disease due to her and the foundation. I just thought People her might give a flip who knows someone here might have a family member affected by this condition.
Is it ncessary to make pointless threads about chuck norris??? |
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| nchs09 |
meh maybe i overreacted. useless thread though. whats next.. supermans son dies?
continue... dont mind me |
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| grooviebeats |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
meh maybe i overreacted. useless thread though. whats next.. supermans son dies?
continue... dont mind me |
I wouldnt say useless it had a point.. but its not the best thread ever. Not even close. |
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| DJ SKEZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by grooviebeats
I wouldnt say useless it had a point.. but its not the best thread ever. Not even close. |
Its not the best thread ever more along the lines of the worst thread ever. I'm sure she was also responsible for ecouraging Christopher Reeves to get on that horse. He was sure lucky to have her. |
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| ClubGoddess |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ SKEZ
Its not the best thread ever more along the lines of the worst thread ever. I'm sure she was also responsible for ecouraging Christopher Reeves to get on that horse. He was sure lucky to have her. |
are you joking? |
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| DJ SKEZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by ClubGoddess
are you joking? |
Are you about to cry? |
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| DJ SKEZ |
| Silly rabbit. I was screwing with you. |
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| washout |
| remember that south park episode ?? |
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| Marc Summers |
Seriously, christopher reeves was a douche bag hollywood actor before he was paralyzed, and when he got paralyzed, the only reason he worked so hard to get research done was to save his own ass.
His wife was cool, I guess. |
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| TigerClaw |
Wow, This is really unexpected and sad, Heres the info from CNN.com
| quote: | Dana Reeve, widow of actor, dies of lung cancer
Tuesday, March 7, 2006; Posted: 1:36 p.m. EST (18:36 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Dana Reeve, the widow of the late actor Christopher Reeve, has died of lung cancer at age 44, according to the Christopher Reeve Foundation.
A lifelong nonsmoker, Dana Reeve revealed she had the disease in August, less than a year after her husband's death. She died Monday night.
"We are all just so sad," foundation President Kathy Lewis said.
Lewis said that she had visited Reeve on Friday and that she was "strong and gracious and courageous." (Watch how Dana Reeve's work inspired admiration -- 1:52)
Reeve was the chairwoman of the foundation, which funds research for new treatments for spinal cord injuries and works to improve the quality of life for people suffering from paralysis.
Her husband died in October 2004 at age 52 after falling into a coma. He had been paralyzed since a horseback riding accident in 1995.
Reeve was admired for the support and love she showed for her husband and for her assistance in his care.
She also was an actress and singer.
In January, she sang at the retirement ceremony for Mark Messier's New York Rangers jersey at Madison Square Garden.
"She sang beautifully. She looked lovely," said Kathie Lee Gifford, who interviewed Reeve at the event. "She was wearing a wig, of course. She had been through chemo and radiation. She was very thin, which you would expect for somebody going through what she was going through."
Gifford said she was surprised by the news because Reeve had seemed so healthy that night. (Watch how nonsmoking women face a lung cancer risk -- 3:34)
"I was absolutely stunned because she told me that day that the tumor was shrinking and she was the picture of optimism that night," Gifford said.
Kate Michelman, a member of the foundation's board, remembered Reeve as "a great spirit."
"The country suffers because Dana, on a personal level, was one of the most remarkable people I've ever known," Michelman said.
She said Reeve's health had seemed to improve, giving friends and loved ones hope that she might recover from the cancer.
"She was improving. You know her own spirit and her own determination to overcome this plague made us feel she could do it," Michelman said.
"She just recently learned that she was failing and right up [till] the end, I have to tell you, Dana was convinced she was going to overcome this."
Michelman said Reeve's death is "a dreadful loss" but that the foundation will "move forward with Christopher and Dana's vision."
Dana and Christopher Reeve married in 1992 after a five-year relationship.
The actor was famous for his role as Superman in a trilogy of movies in the late 1970s and 1980s. He continued to act and direct films after his accident.
Christopher Reeve became a crusader to help find therapies and treatments for paralysis and was an outspoken supporter of stem-cell research. Dana Reeve was credited with carrying on his work through the foundation.
"After Christopher's death, Dana was determined to preserve the important work and the legacy of hope that became his life's mission," Lewis said in a statement. "Even in our grief, the foundation must pick up and continue to go forward with this mission.
"At the same time, we commit ourselves to ensuring that the light of grace, courage and hopefulness that Dana embodied continues to shine bright -- bringing comfort and hope to people living with paralysis and their families and caregivers."
She is survived by the couple's son, Will, 13; her father; two sisters; and two stepchildren, according to the foundation's statement. |
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