RIP Christopher Reeve

rip

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well, i'm sure christopher reeve would've had something to say about that.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-10-11-reeve-obit_x.htm
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=37854

Oh dear Lord. Sure, he already wasn't in the best of health, but damn, this news still comes as a huge surprise. RIP.

Until you intimately understand such a situation, you may never understand how great a relief it can be.

This really is sad though. What a depressing month or two this has been.

This family member was very active. She loved playing sports. She had to be doing physical things all the time. Then she was in a car accident which left her able to walk short distances with great effort, and rely on a scooter for everything else. She cannot look after herself. She relies on a carer. She even struggles to eat and talk.

This has put a stop to her life, leaving her trapped in her own body. It's also greatly affected the lives of her husband and children, who have spent the past 18 years watching her decline. She's not the same person she was. It's a thoroughly miserable experience for her, and for everyone who knows her.

Yet this woman isn't half as crippled as Christopher Reeve was. Yes his wife will be gutted and wrecked and grieving, but she no longer has to watch the man she loved locked in a useless body, unable to do anything at all. That will be a huge relief to her, because finally the pain has ended for everyone. That's why I said his wife would be relieved.

Now, if you could please get off my fricking back, it'd be greatly appreciated.

RIP.

I'd be kind of nice if someone had an obit accompanied by a picture of Reeve as Superman.

RIP, Chris.

RIP Christopher.

RIP chris reeve. your life of fame lasted as long as my life itself, which feels very strange. a great actor though, his Clark Kent was comic genius, and I loved a binch of other movies he was in, too, like that murder thriller with Michael Caine, and that remake of His Girl Friday with Kathleen Turner and Burt Reynolds...

RIP, Christopher.

(ps in a very odd coincidence i had a sudden and unwarranted urge to rent the first 2 Supes films a few days ago...)

RIP.

remember him this way :

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and god bless him wherever he's gone.

also aa, i'm sorry i snapped at you like that, i clearly misinterpreted your tone and am of course sympathetic to what you were saying.

Oh nevermind.

i met a lot of people like this through looking after my dad, who was handicapped and somewhat wheelchair bound through Multiple Sclerosis, but i always believed that hope was important, and that the positive effect of this belief in the possibility of The Cure should never be discounted. the guy on the news didn't make a very good argument, to be honest.

"As Christopher himself once said, "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

We can. We must. We will."

RIP

Actor and advocate Christopher Reeve mourned by Calgary fans
CALGARY (CP) — Ontario-based actor David Shelley clearly remembers the day he met the Man of Steel.
He was four years old, grumpy and tired of walking through a farmer’s field near High River, Alta.
But then the yellow rows of wheat parted and Shelley saw his hero — Superman — suspended by a crane several metres above the ground.
“I was scared. I mean, I was meeting my hero,” said Shelley, who now performs with the Stratford Festival in Ontario.
Somehow Shelley’s father had talked the pair onto the set of Superman III in 1982, leading to a photo opportunity and a chance to meet Christopher Reeve.
“At one point, I got so nervous, I tried to bolt. (He) grabbed the back of my pants and pulled me back for a few pictures. He was so gracious and kind.”
Reeve died Sunday of complications from an infection caused by a bedsore. He was 52.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the actor was a familiar site around Calgary, High River, Vulcan and Blackie, where the Superman movies were filmed.
Doug MacLeod, then location manager for the third Superman movie, said Reeve was a low-maintenance actor who asked for little more than a gym membership while in Calgary.
“He was a very open and generous guy,” said MacLeod, who is now an executive producer based in Canmore.
Reeve returned to the city in 1993 as an honorary parade marshall for the Calgary Stampede.
The 1995 riding accident that left Reeve a quadriplegic derailed his acting career but opened a door to the world of activism.
He became an international icon for spinal cord research including the controversial use of stem cells.
Reeve was scheduled to speak at the Nov. 10 Canadian Paraplegic Association’s annual Red Carpet Affair fundraiser to inaugurate the University of Calgary’s new spinal cord research unit.
Officials with the Calgary chapter are saddened by Reeve’s death and said it’s unclear whether the event will go ahead as planned.
“Right now, we’ve got some tough decisions to make,” spokesman Barry Lindemann said Monday. “There was such great excitement for him coming.
“He showed what people with spinal cord injuries could accomplish,” said Lindemann. “He’ll never be forgotten.”
Alberta disability advocates said Reeve’s death has shaken the community.
“I feel very badly that he is gone,” said Mark Pickup, who lives with progressive multiple sclerosis. “He was a wonderful spokesman for disabilities.”
Despite Reeve’s many achievements as an actor, director and advocate, it was his friendly nature and kind heart that fans will remember most, said Shelley.
“He was huge,” he said. “I’ll always remember him as Superman.”
(Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun)

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