"Brilliant One" wrote in message ...
"A few months after the accident, he told interviewer Barbara Walters that he
considered suicide in the first dark days after he was injured. But he quickly
overcame such thoughts when he saw his children.
''I could see how much they needed me and wanted me... and how lucky we all
are and that my brain is on straight.''"

Lucky? His was one of the biggest leaps from top-of-the-world
film star to wheelchair-bound-veggie in entertainment history. I
think his will to survive and recover were wonderful; OTOH he
gave millions of spinal cord injury victims false hope that
medical breakthroughs were right on the doorstep. They aren't.

Rick