# Death of Superman? Drudge is reporting that Christopher Reeves has died. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583 "2004-10-11T05:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/41 "2004-10-11T15:54:18Z")
This is such a bummer! The Superman movie occupies a big place in my childhood. I went to see it with my birthday party when I was like seven years old. I, too, expected Reeve to walk again some day. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/42 "2004-10-11T17:05:10Z")
Williams also donated millions to research into stemcell and other technologies that might help Reeve walk again. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/43 "2004-10-11T17:06:34Z")
☹ How unbelievably sad. This is the first time that I can think of that a celebrity death has gotten me so down. Poor Superman. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/44 "2004-10-11T17:42:37Z")
You know, as far as I’m concerned, he and George Reeves are the only actors suitable to play Supes. I realize plenty of people will disagree with me on this, but those are the guys I grew up watching, and anyone else in the role just seems wrong, IMHO. Rest well, Mr. Reeve. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/45 "2004-10-11T19:39:58Z")
Everybody remembers him as Superman, but for some reason I remember him as Lewis, the American businessman in _Remains of the Day_. It wasn’t a major role in the film, but he played it well, conveying an air of decency and honor that contrasted sharply with Lord Darlington’s German guests. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/46 "2004-10-11T19:54:51Z")
Note to all other saddened folk: Apparently " For those who care to do so, the family has requested that donations be made in his honor to the Foundation. Cards may be sent to the family in care of the Foundation at 500 Morris Avenue, Springfield, New Jersey 07081" - from the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation website, [http://www.christopherreeve.org/](http://www.christopherreeve.org/) ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/47 "2004-10-12T00:04:04Z")
i was shocked and sadden to hear of mr. reeve’s passing. if not for the very quick response after his accident, he would have passed 9 years ago. the way he would have been remembered then, so very, very, different than now. he did more with 9 years with a disabled body than many people do in 90 years in an able body. he changed the way many people look at a person in a chair. he gave hope to so many people. he showed so much dignity dealing with a condition that strips you of so much. i’m very grateful he got 9 years with his family, esp. his youngest son. his friends, esp. robin williams. and with us who watched from afar. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/48 "2004-10-12T00:26:00Z")
I just this minute found out. We were talking on the phone about his death (and the fact that Mom is well enough to talk on the phone is a huge boost to my day, by the way) and she said, “Oh, I got to know him quite well through National Transplant.” After she retired, Mom volunteered at several charities, including National Transplant Assistance Fund, which was one of Chris Reeve’s many causes. “He was a very nice guy, but I’m surprised he lived this long,” she says. I knew Mom knows Kobe Bryant, but _this_ was a total surprise! Hmmm, Mom knew him, I was sorta in a movie with him . . . Practically makes us related! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/49 "2004-10-12T01:11:16Z")
I’m sure this is just one of many similar cartoons to be published in the days to come, but [PvP Online](http://www.pvponline.com/) had a pretty good tribute to him today. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/50 "2004-10-12T01:40:15Z")
Here’s hoping DC Comics gives him a proper tribute. ---
**Author:** ![Badge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Badge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badge)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/51 "2004-10-12T02:22:04Z")
**"And sometimes I despair the world will never see Another man like him"** _Superman’s Song_ by Crash Test Dummies Fly away, big man. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/52 "2004-10-12T02:48:39Z")
I was crying and crying for about half an hour today. And I felt so dumb, but-- He was a good man. For Christmas last year, I gave my dad a Superman toy as a present. Dad was one of the kids who would go out every month and buy the new DC Comics issue at the drugstore, and he used to sit down with us when we were really little and watch the old movies with my brother and I, too. This toy was really neat – it was a little 8" Superman action figure that was chained to this brick wall, and you could stack the bricks on top of each other and push a button, and then the bricks would crash down and Superman would fly off the stand. And I kept thinking about that toy this afternoon, and I was looking at pictures of Christopher Reeve in costume, and I was just crying and crying and _crying_. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/53 "2004-10-12T03:53:17Z")
☹ Too beautiful and too courageous a man to die, too young and too loved by so many. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/54 "2004-10-12T03:54:20Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > No word on how. From the _New York Times_ – [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/national/11CND-REEV.html?hp&ex=1097553600&en=67047ac2f3ebd876&ei=5094&partner=homepage:](http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/national/11CND-REEV.html?hp&ex=1097553600&en=67047ac2f3ebd876&ei=5094&partner=homepage:) > [@](#): > > Mr. Reeve was being treated for a pressure wound, a common complication for people in wheelchairs, said his publicity agent, Wesley Combs. These wounds result from constant pressure in one spot, reducing the blood to that area and finally killing the affected tissue. > > Mr. Combs said that Mr. Reeve fell into a coma on Saturday. The wound had become severely infected, and the infection spread through his body. Hasten the day Reeve worked so hard to bring about, when that cause-of-death will seem as much a thing of the past as polio! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/55 "2004-10-12T04:09:32Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Hasten the day Reeve worked so hard to bring about, when that cause-of-death will seem as much a thing of the past as polio! There was a promo for a local news program that’s supposed to air tomorrow a segment on a new three step procedure which can cure some forms of paralysis. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583/56 "2004-10-12T12:52:33Z")
If you want to know what type of person Christopher Reeve was, here’s a story from Talking Broadway’s “All that Chat” message board: I’ll say. I had tickets with my family to see “The Fifth Of July” at The New Appollo at a Saturday matinee. I was waiting by the stage door with the window card and was hoping he’d be cool enough to sign it. He was a huge international star by then. Well lo and behold Mr. Reeve walks up and sees the window card and flips out… he hadn’t seen it yet and was thrilled with it. He wanted to know where I got and as I tried to give him directions to Triton he says, hey take a walk with me and off we went up 8th towards 45th. We got up to the corner of 8th and 45th, I pointed out the store and back we went to the matinee. He was lovely and funny and I have the first lobby card he signed from the show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-superman-drudge-is-reporting-that-christopher-reeves-has-died/268583.md?page=2)