Dana Reeve... Dead

[Chrissy25 0]

really really sad, i feel so sory for their son, losing both parents so close together like that

[almaty 19]

sad....seemed like a good strong person ...

[Marilyn. 340]

that's sooo sad

[Dixie_Peach 1]

sad indeed... another great lady to leave this planet... she is with good company... Mother Theresa & Lady Diana... may they all rest in peace!

[Jasman0717 8]

RIP

[Priscila and Christopher 0]

That's something sad and hard to believe! She was too young and wasn't a smoker! I guess this kind of cancerous manifestation must be very rare! Well, God knows about everything... She'll be with her husband now!

Rest in peace!

[Cristy 4]

It is so sad. After all that family went through this is just not fair at all.

[faith 0]

That's something sad and hard to believe! She was too young and wasn't a smoker! I guess this kind of cancerous manifestation must be very rare! Well, God knows about everything... She'll be with her husband now!

Rest in peace!

Nope, not rare:

The American Cancer Society and the other professional anti contingents of the so-called "public health community" don't like it to be known that anywhere from 20,000 to 30,000 never-smokers get lung cancer every year. Some of these are very young, like pilot Lisa Wagner, a never-smoker who died from lung cancer in June, 2002. She was 31. Or bagpipe champion Kevin Quail, also 31. Or Susan Manley, 38, of Cincinnati, who never smoked, never worked around tobacco smoke, and grew up in a non-smoking home. Or Kim Perrot, the champion Women's National Basketball Assn. point guard of the Houston Comets, who was only 32 when she died of lung cancer.

Even vehement anti-smokers get lung cancer. Just this past September, celebrity hairdresser Murdo Maclean died of lung cancer at 52. He not only never smoked (or drank) himself, but he banned smoking in his shop in the 1970s and was vehement about his opposition to tobacco smoke and smoking.

And, despite all the smoking bans, the incidence of lung cancer in never-smokers appears to be rising, even in men. According to a study by IARC (an arm of the World Health Organization), the rate of lung cancer in a cohort of never-smoking Swedish men was more than four times as high between 1991 and 1995 as it had been between 1976 and 1980 [bofetta P, Jarvholm B, Brennan P, Nyren O, "Incidence of lung cancer in a large cohort of non-smoking men from Sweden," International Journal of Cancer, 94:4, pp. 591-593, 8/27/01]. Abstract can be found here.

Further, about 50% of diagnosed lung cancer cases are in EX-smokers, some of whom have not smoked in 30 or more years, like Bernard Fox, retired chief executive officer of Northeast Utilities in Berlin, Connecticut: "I had not smoked in more than 30 years, and I had kept in excellent physical condition. In a nutshell, lung cancer was the last disease I thought I would get," [bernard M. Fox, "Uphill Battle," Hartford Courant, 12/4/01].

[I'm Gone 60]

Now Larry King has a show on about her and John Kerry is talking about her. What the hell did this woman ever do other than be the wife of Chistopher Reeves. I just don't get it.

[Marilyn. 340]

she was an actress, but she was also the chairman of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation

The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation has awarded $53 million in scientific research grants and provided $6.5 million in quality-of-life grants to nonprofit organizations helping those struck by “anything that impairs mobility, including stroke, ALS, multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy.” New fund-raising efforts include a Superman dog tag and a children’s book, Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again.

The Reeves also created the Christopher and Dana Reeve Resource Center in 2002 as a program within the Foundation after reading the letters that poured in asking for help. “I wanted there to be one place you could contact and ask, ‘What do I do now?’ and find answers,” she explains.

Dana Reeves

[I'm Gone 60]

sad indeed... another great lady to leave this planet... she is with good company... Mother Theresa & Lady Diana... may they all rest in peace!

How can you put Lady Diana and Dana Reeves in the same catagory as Mother Theresa. What did Lady Diana ever do except marry Prince Charles and do photo ops holding poor children. Died in a chauffer driven Mercedes with her billionare boyfriend running from photographers, rough life.

[KarenCee 3]

she was an actress, but she was also the chairman of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation

The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation has awarded $53 million in scientific research grants and provided $6.5 million in quality-of-life grants to nonprofit organizations helping those struck by “anything that impairs mobility, including stroke, ALS, multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy.” New fund-raising efforts include a Superman dog tag and a children’s book, Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again.

The Reeves also created the Christopher and Dana Reeve Resource Center in 2002 as a program within the Foundation after reading the letters that poured in asking for help. “I wanted there to be one place you could contact and ask, ‘What do I do now?’ and find answers,” she explains.

Dana Reeves

Now THAT is a great lady...that was her contribution to this world...and it is truly sad that she's gone, and from a disease that should have had a cure for by now. You'd think with all the research done across the world on cancer and aids that a cure would have been found by now.

Sigh.....

[Marilyn. 340]

sad indeed... another great lady to leave this planet... she is with good company... Mother Theresa & Lady Diana... may they all rest in peace!

How can you put Lady Diana and Dana Reeves in the same catagory as Mother Theresa. What did Lady Diana ever do except marry Prince Charles and do photo ops holding poor children. Died in a chauffer driven Mercedes with her billionare boyfriend running from photographers, rough life.

Charity work

Starting in the mid-to-late 1980s, the Princess of Wales became well known for her support of charity projects, and is credited with considerable influence for her campaigns against the use of landmines and helping the victims of AIDS.

AIDS

In April 1987, the Princess of Wales was the first high-profile celebrity to be photographed knowingly touching a person infected with the HIV virus. Her contribution to changing the public opinion of AIDS sufferers was summarised in December 2001 by Bill Clinton at the 'Diana, Princess of Wales Lecture on AIDS', when he said:

In 1987, when so many still believed that AIDS could be contracted through casual contact, Princess Diana sat on the sickbed of a man with AIDS and held his hand. She showed the world that people with AIDS deserve no isolation, but compassion and kindness. It helped change world opinion, and gave hope to people with AIDS with an outcome of saved lives of people at risk.

Landmines

Perhaps her most widely publicised charity appearance was her visit to Angola in January 1997, when, serving as an International Red Cross VIP volunteer [1], she visited landmine survivors in hospitals, toured de-mining projects run by the HALO Trust, and attended mine awareness education classes about the dangers of mines immediately surrounding homes and villages.

The pictures of Diana touring a minefield, in a ballistic helmet and flak jacket, were seen worldwide. (In fact, mine-clearance experts had already cleared the pre-planned walk that Diana took wearing the protective equipment.) In August that year, she visited Bosnia with the Landmine Survivors Network. Her interest in landmines was focused on the injuries they create, often to children, long after the conflict has finished.

She is widely acclaimed[2] for her influence on the signing by the governments of the UK and other nations of the Ottawa Treaty in December 1997, after her death, which created an international ban on the use of anti-personnel landmines. Introducing the Second Reading of the Landmines Bill 1998 to the British House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, paid tribute to Diana's work on landmines:

All Honourable Members will be aware from their postbags of the immense contribution made by Diana, Princess of Wales to bringing home to many of our constituents the human costs of landmines. The best way in which to record our appreciation of her work, and the work of NGOs that have campaigned against landmines, is to pass the Bill, and to pave the way towards a global ban on landmines. [3]

As of January 2005, Diana's legacy on landmines remained unfulfilled. The United Nations appealed to the nations which produced and stockpiled the largest numbers of landmines (China, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and the United States) to sign the Ottawa Treaty forbidding their production and use, for which Diana had campaigned. Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), said that landmines remained "a deadly attraction for children, whose innate curiosity and need for play often lure them directly into harm's way".

Diana, Princess of Wales

she used her power and influence for good

Edited March 8, 2006 by MarilynP

[gabby4ever 1]

mdyoung, i feel so fuckin' SOOOOOORRY for you. ...that woman gave up everything and dedicated her life to her husband...thats why she's a great woman....you'd be lucky enough if your wife wont leave you after getting her greencard....probably you think the way you think cause you wish you had a wife like her....i wonder how your precious significant other would take care of you if you'd be paralized....at the courthouse probably....getting a divorce

you disgust me

at least if you dont have any nice words for a woman that deserves all our admiration for what she's done , shut the ###### up !!!

[kaydee457 13]

Now Larry King has a show on about her and John Kerry is talking about her. What the hell did this woman ever do other than be the wife of Chistopher Reeves. I just don't get it.

Well, although I agree with you, it's a trend that has a long legacy. The wife assumes the stature and importance of the husband by virtue of marriage.

I recall not too many years ago an instance whereby a wealthy family won a state lottery. The wife; the spouse of a medical doctor (MD) stood before the cameras and stated that given who/whom she was that she really didn't need the prize but that of course it was welcome. She did so in a very condescending tone. Obviously she was lambasted in the press for her comments but one needs to step back and and ask the same question; how did this woman aquire such stature? Well, she simply sleeps with someone that actually earned the stature by hard work. Her claim to fame is simply that she sleeps with an accomplished person....

SIC.....