Smoke one for the Reeves'

And blow it to Heaven.

Dana Reeve Dies Of Lung Cancer
March 7, 2006, 08:56 AM

Dana Reeve, who fought for better treatments and possible cures for paralysis through the Christopher Reeve Foundation, named for her late actor-husband, has died, the foundation said. She was 44.

Reeve died late Monday of lung cancer, said Kathy Lewis, President and CEO of the foundation.

"On behalf of the entire Board of Directors and staff of the Christopher Reeve Foundation, we are extremely saddened by the death of Dana Reeve, whose grace and courage under the most difficult of circumstances was a source of comfort and inspiration to all of us," Lewis said in a statement.

CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin reports that Reeve's was one of those rare cases of lung cancer in people who've never smoked. Doctors say only ten percent of non-smoking women and up to 20 percent of non-smoking men get the disease.

Reeve, who lived in Pound Ridge, N.Y., with the couple's son Will, had appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional stages and on the TV shows "Law & Order," "Oz," and "All My Children." In an Associated Press interview a month after her husband's death, she said, "I am an actress and I do have to make a living. ... I definitely will be getting back to acting."

Reeve came to be viewed as a symbol of courage, along with husband Christopher Reeve, as she stuck by his side during the struggle that wound up killing him.

Christopher, the star of the "Superman" movies, was paralyzed in a horse-riding accident in 1996 and died in 2004. Dana's mother died shortly afterward. Then in August, Dana announced she had inoperable cancer.

"Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis in the summer," Dana Reeve said at a cancer fundraiser in New York last year. I've been responding so well to treatment, and the tumor is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking, so it's a big sigh of relief, and I feel good.

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May she R.I.P... No one deserves to die the slow and painful death of lung cancer... especially someone that never smoked,, that's fucked up

i hear ya man, & another for their family

they got a 13 year old son named will
he lost his mom and da in two years
poor lil homie.maybe that cash will cheer him up