Posted on 03/07/2006 5:26:51 AM PST by JRochelle
She died of lung cancer. Haven't found any links yet. Heard it on WLSAM Chicago.
or something?
People get cancer. Most types of Cancer are still NOT attributable to anything specific. Every other year a new food or chemical "may" be cancerous. I have a good friend who's never smoked, or lived with a smoker etc. who recently had a bout with lung cancer. Hopefully all the tissue was removed. Her doctors have stated it's probably not lifestyle related.
She was diagnosed with lung cancer.
A very large assumption indeed. And...one that was wrong at that!
That's 4bbldowndraft plan, just create junk to be a bother to all so we'll be less likely to return. Just a hunch.
Sadly, that is the more likely probability. (Beyond death there are only the two options of heaven and hell, after all.) The point is, many people make the assumption that a "good" person who dies has gone to heaven. The problem is, everyone invariably defines "good" so as to include themselves and others who believe and behave as they do. The truth is, no one is good. That automatically excludes everyone from heaven, because only the righteous may enter. Jesus made it clear that only those who receive Him as their savior shall enter ('No one comes to the Father except through Me,' He said) having been imputed with His righteousness as a result of placing their faith and trust in Him, believing that His death on the cross was the payment for their sin.
No, I don't know the state of Christopher Reeve's heart, but his public statements about Christians and his views on Christianity indicate strongly that he was not a believer in Christ. Those who die without Christ as their savior enter into hell for eternity.
I had terrible ear problems as a child. The only time my parents didn't smoke was when they were sleeping, though they were probably dreaming about it.
Dana Reeve: Death of a 'Super-Hero'
http://www.1010wins.com/pages/12519.php
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (1010 WINS) -- Dana Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her ``Superman'' husband, Christopher Reeve, through his decade of near-total paralysis, has died of lung cancer at age 44.
1010 WINS Video: Dana Reeve
Reeve, a singer-actress who gave up some of her own career to be one of the nation's best-known caregivers, died late Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center of lung cancer, said Kathy Lewis, president of the Christopher Reeve Foundation. Dana Reeve had succeeded Christopher Reeve as chair of the foundation, which funded research into spinal-cord paralysis cures.
Lewis said she was at Reeve's hospital bedside on Friday, and Reeve was ``tired but with her typical sense of humor and smile, always trying to make other people feel good, her characteristic personality.''
``She was a woman with an incredible heart who really put herself out there to help people with disabilities and especially those who are caregivers, something she knew a lot about.''
Reeve is survived by the Reeves' 13-year-old son, Will; two grown stepchildren, Matthew and Alexandra; her father, Charles Morosini, and two sisters. The foundation said no plans for a funeral have been announced.
Four months ago, at a fundraising gala for the foundation, Reeve looked healthy in a long, formal gown and said she was responding well to treatment and her tumor was shrinking.
``I'm beating the odds and defying every statistic the doctors can throw at me,'' Reeve said then. ``My prognosis looks better all the time.''
Reeve, a nonsmoker, had announced her lung cancer diagnosis in August. Doctors say 1 in 5 women diagnosed with the disease never lit a cigarette.
Asked how she kept her spirits up, Reeve said she ``had a great model.''
``I was married to a man who never gave up,'' she said.
Christopher Reeve, star of Hollywood's ``Superman'' movies, became an activist for spinal cord research after a horse-riding accident paralyzed him on 1995. He died Oct. 10, 2004.
Dana Reeve was a constant companion and supporter of her husband during his long ordeal and his work for a cure for spinal cord injuries.
Reeve, who lived in Pound Ridge, had appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway and regional stages and on the TV shows ``Law & Order,'' ``Oz,'' and ``All My Children.''
She was on the board of the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, where she met Christopher Reeve doing summer theater, and the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.
A year ago, she won a Mother of the Year award from the American Cancer Society. A society vice president, Dr. Michael Thun, said Reeve ``has shown strength and courage in the face of tremendous adversity.''
Does anyone here know why CR seemed to lose all his hair, eyebrows, eyelashes and facial hair during the last few years of his life?
I was just looking at this photo and had noticed that in the last few photos ever taken of him.
I have a dear friend who's had lung cancer surgery and it reappeared as metatastic bone cancer. Yet she doesn't know what "level" is it. Don't docs usually spell it out?
Could be Radon
Actually, Jesus requires YOU to make that decision during your lifetime here on earth.
Not only that but a friend was diagnosed as having lung cancer, given three months to live, shut down her business and went to Mayo Clinic to learn that she's got a fungus. A local doc in the area got the same mis-diagnosis.
I wonder what the lung cancer rate is for people living in NY or LA and breathing that smog every day.
I wonder if it is higher than other areas of the country.
A reminder to us all at how precious life is. Prayers to her young son and all her family and friends.
She wasn't a smoker. But she was exposed to concentrated second-hand smoke for years. (She sang in bars.)--meOf course, because it HAD to be SOMETHING to do with smoking. Lung Cancer didn't exist until smoking you know.--sandbar
;)
See my response to Publius6961
As I understand it, she may have had a genetic predisposition. And she was exposed to concentrated second-hand smoke for years. While this doesn't prove anything, a causal relationship is certainly a reasonable hypothesis.
I would wager that dying from lung cancer at age 44 is very rare for a non-smoker who wasn't, say, exposed to asbestos 10-30 years prior to the onset of the disease.
She is a brave woman who loved her husband and may they both find each other now.
Elect John Edwards and he will make sure lung cancer people can smoke again.
It's a good thing you're not the last word on that.
Imagine smoking didn't exist. If I found the first tobacco plant, and went to the government to get permission to sell this toxic, highly addictive and often lethal substance to the public, how far do you think I'd get?
I also read she wasn't a smoker. Don't know if that meant currently, or was previously. In any event in regards to tobacco, remember, we have a huge, cultural, financial history with tobacco dating back further than George Washington's own crops. A huge part of the South was employed by it. The problem is once we found out it was addictive, the tobacco industry appears to tried to have hid it. Now we have huge health care costs to deal with an addictive product that the government should have dealt with earlier. Health insurance is skyrocketing, smoking is apart of it. I honestly cannot believe we allow smoking today? What benefit is it? Can you imagine Martians landing on earth and spying on a bunch of employees with white sticks out of their mouth:
Martian Boss: Okay Zot, report your findings.
Zot: Well, it seems they stand around outside together in a semi-circle with the white sticks lit with fire.
Boss: Rationale?
Zot: Unknown. It does not appear to be some subversive insurrection in the planning. Small talk is made. Once the white stick shortens from the fire. It is thrown on the ground.
Boss: So we have no fears of a post-attack reprisal?
Zot: Actually, if we wait a few decades, more deaths from the sticks will occur, and lower the adult population.
Boss: Agreed. Anything else.
Zot: Two things, one, strangely, numerous people with sticks stand outside medical facilities, and two, when are we going to let Elvis go back?
I quit smoking 21 years ago. I still dread it when I have a chest X-ray. My father died of Lung Cancer from smoking at 60. 3 years away.....
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