A moment of Silence for Chris Reeves

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]You get to watch a lot of early morning TV when you have a baby that's how I found out this morning that Christopher Reeves passed away at the age of 52 from heart failure brought on by complications due to his paralysis.

Reeves became paralized back in 95 after a fall from a horse during a cross country competition. In the past few years he became an advocate for stem cell research. He was best known for his role as Superman back in the 70's. He did his own stunts in the movies.

I'm not sure what to put after this except that I'm sad thatthis had to happen before there may have been a cure found to get him to walk again.[/color]

[Baron Samedi]

[size=1][quote=nine-msn News] US actor Christopher Reeve, the star of the Superman movies who was paralysed from the neck down by a near-fatal riding accident nine years ago has died of heart failure, his publicist said.

He was 52.

Reeve, who became an advocate for spinal cord research after the accident in 1995, fell into a coma on Saturday after going into cardiac arrest while at his New York home and died on Sunday, publicist Wesley Combs told The Associated Press from Washington, DC.

Reeve was being treated at Northern Westchester Hospital for a pressure wound that he developed, a common complication for people 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, his widow, 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, Virginia.

Enduring months of therapy to allow him to breathe for longer and longer periods without a respirator, Reeve emerged to lobby the US Congress for better insurance protection against catastrophic injury and to move an Academy Award audience to tears with a call for more films about social issues.

He returned to directing, and even returned to acting in a 1998 production of Rear Window, a modern update of the Hitchcock thriller about a man in a wheelchair who becomes convinced a neighbour has been murdered.

Reeve won a Screen Actors Guild award for best actor in a television movie or mini-series.

"I was worried that only acting with my voice and my face, I might not be able to communicate effectively enough to tell the story," Reeve said.

"But I was surprised to find that if I really concentrated, and just let the thoughts happen, that they would read on my face. With so many close-ups, I knew that my every thought would count."

In his public appearances, he was as handsome as ever, his blue eyes bright and his voice clear.

"Hollywood needs to do more," he said in the March 1996 Oscar awards appearance.[/quote]

I read about this already, and thought it was very sad =/[/size]

[ChibiHorsewoman]

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I read about this already, and thought it was very sad =/[/size][/QUOTE]

[color=darkviolet]Thanks for the whole run through. I'm way too tired to be efficient, so I think I'll go back to bed.[/color]

[TheShinje]

This is the first I've heard of it, sad news.

I was always hoping that one day they would find a cure for the paralysis, and Reeve may one day walk again. Sadly, it wasn't to be.

My prayers with Reeve's family at this time.

[Guest Garelock]

Man. Superman's gone. I liked Chris Reeve, never found a thing wrong with a guy. He was nice, kind, gentle and even funny. I didn't think too much of the Superman movies but the fact of the matter is that he's a great actor. It sucks...if only stem cell research was properly funded then maybe Chris could've had the chance to use his legs before he died. But I guess in heaven and as an angel, you have wings so why do you need legs?

Fly on Super bro. My heart felt condolences for the Reeve family. It's such a tragedy.