God Bless Superman

"Reeve made a concerted effort to, as he often put it, ''escape the cape.'' He
played an embittered, crippled Vietnam veteran in the 1980 Broadway play
''Fifth of July,'' a lovestruck time-traveler in the 1980 movie ''Somewhere in
Time,'' and an aspiring playwright in the 1982 suspense thriller ''Deathtrap.''
More recent films included John Carpenter's ''Village of the Damned,'' and the
HBO movies ''Above Suspicion'' and ''In the Gloaming,'' which he directed.
Among his other film credits are ''The Remains of the Day,'' ''The Aviator,''
and ''Morning Glory.''"
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"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.''"
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"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

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

Rick,
I think you're wrong there. He worked and regained feeling in many parts of
his body and I seem to remember was worked on with an op to rejoin his nerve
endings in a pioneering treatment ?

HTG

"Honkeytonk Man" wrote in message ...
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

Rick,
I think you're wrong there. He worked and regained feeling in many parts of
his body and I seem to remember was worked on with an op to rejoin his nerve
endings in a pioneering treatment ?

That's exactly what I mean. We heard a dozen stories about
various pioneering treatments, then, strangely, we never heard
what the eventual results were of these treatments. The sad
fact is, nothing helped much... Reeve was always on a
respirator, etc. He didn't recover any more than anyone else
with a similar spinal cord injury who did not go through these
pioneering treatments.

Rick

Rick Reeve's was kept alive because his accident happened with lots of
doctors around Fact is nature was trying to kill him as fast as
possible. He suffered greatly over the years. How many of us could go
through what he had to go though. I wonder if those with the same
condition,and little money get the care he got. Could it be
possible his brain cancelled his body out(stopped his heart,because
enough is enough. Bert

"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ...
Rick Reeve's was kept alive because his accident happened with lots of
doctors around Fact is nature was trying to kill him as fast as
possible. He suffered greatly over the years. How many of us could go
through what he had to go though. I wonder if those with the same
condition,and little money get the care he got. Could it be
possible his brain cancelled his body out(stopped his heart,because
enough is enough. Bert

Maybe. Who knows for sure? But your first point IMO is
exactly correct -- it's amazing how being wealthy is so often a
source of more suffering instead of less.

Rick

Could it be
possible his brain cancelled his body out(stopped his heart,because
enough is enough.

That thought occured to me, as well as a few others. I have a feeling Reeves'
role in our collective consciousness will linger...
He was a very decent man. And clearly, over the years, his depth of compassion
likely reached heights, considering the knowledge he acquired from his work in
the arts, as well his advocacy work for people with disabilities.

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it's amazing how being wealthy is so often a
source of more suffering instead of less.

Rick

You mean, of course, that the wealthy are often a source, or instigator, of
suffering/oppression for the poor; not that the wealthy suffer more than the
poor.

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That thought, as well as a few others, occured to me.

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