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Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5876
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 9:00 am: | 
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died this morning, or last night.
how sad. |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3081
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 9:16 am: |
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/03/07/obit.reeve.ap/index.html
Not fair, not fair at all. Truly the good die young.
R.I.P. Dana...and thank you. |
red
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Username: Redy67
Post Number: 5069
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 9:21 am: |
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The poor son.... |
Meandtheboys
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Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 3159
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 9:30 am: |
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OMG, I had no idea she was that ill. How truly, truly horrible and sad.
That poor child. Both parents in such a short time! |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 4244
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 9:42 am: |
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My sister just told me about Dana Reed's passing. How sad. Will has been so much in his short life (I think he's 13); now loosing both of his parents within a few years. |
The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1579
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 10:43 am: |
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That's Donna Reed. |
TomD
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Username: Tomd
Post Number: 367
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 11:23 am: |
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It's awful. I watched the Rangers' game where they retired Messier's number 11 a few weeks ago and she sang a song. I thought she looked like she was doing so well and she was able to belt out the song. I was totally shocked when I heard. |
LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1359
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 11:58 am: |
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It's very sad. She seemed like a very strong, compassionate and talented person.
I don't know why this bothers me so much, but I hate the fact that the headline on Yahoo reads "Christopher Reeve's widow dies at 44" I know that being his wife was one role she played in her life and a lot of people know her as that...but doesn't she deserve to have her own name in that headline - it just implies that she doesn't stand out on her own without being recognized as his wife. I'm sure I'm blowing this out of proportion, but it really really gets under my skin. |
tulip
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Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3302
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 1:54 pm: |
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Might be a sign of how much of a role stress/grief can play in cancer. I got cancer four years after my mother died, and three years after my father died. Grief, I think, played a small role. I didn't deal well with it. |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3084
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 3:42 pm: |
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The Christopher Reeve Foundation is our neighbor.
Christopher Reeve Foundation
636 Morris Turnpike Suite 3A, Short Hills, NJ 07078
(800) 225-0292
Donations in Dana's memory as well as condolences can be made at www.christopherreeve.org. |
ess
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Username: Ess
Post Number: 1323
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 10:10 pm: |
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Awfully sad news. My thoughts, too, went to their son.
Dana Reeve announced her cancer not too long after Chris Reeve died. She was very brave, and very strong -- both during her own illness and her husband's ordeal.
For some reason, her death really saddened me on a personal level. People her age (which isn't too much different from my age) shouldn't be dying. |
Deidra
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Username: Deidralynn
Post Number: 511
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - 12:22 am: |
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This kind of thing hits me hard too - on a very personal level! I'm 41, healthy, non-smoker, herbal tea and wheatgrass juice drinker. Never had any serious medical illness. There is a lot of things concerning disease and mortality to keep in mind. I've had people close to me die young from disease or by sudden accident. It's made me think of my own mortality many times. I think about the people I would leave behind (especially my husband and boys). That's why I bought Tim McGraw's CD with the song, "Live Like you are Dyin". The words cut deep and tell you to get right with your life NOW!
My best girlfriend died at 38, 4 years ago from Cancer and my mom died last year of colon cancer. I had a friend that died suddenly at 25 because he lost control on his first motorcycle ride, and hit a pole (out in L.A.). People like Dana Reeves (as well as many others - like my hero, Arthur Ashe) show us how to do the right thing during life - so the focus is not the way one died but the way one has lived, and the people they leave behind to carry on can say, "Well done".
Well done, Dana Reeves. I'm sure their son will have many arms wrapped around him from now on. |
mlj
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Username: Mlj
Post Number: 195
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - 10:12 am: |
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A strong, remarkable woman. Epitome of grace and dignity with much to teach us all. |
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