I learned yesterday that Christopher Reeve’s wife, Dana, died of lung cancer on Monday.

Dana Reeve stayed by her husband who was paralyzed after being thrown from a horse. The man who played Superman vowed to walk again and I believed he would do just that, but unfortunately his number came up first. Sadly, the reaper knows no bounds, and a couple years later, Dana would be diagnosed with lung cancer. She too, strongly fought the illness and looked to be making a recovery.

But it was not meant to be.

Leon describes his reaction to Dana’s passing:

The news of her death left me in shock, because I never saw it coming. I know she was diagnosed with lung cancer, despite the fact that she didn’t smoke, but she seemed to be healing. She said the tumour was shrinking, and looked as happy and healthy as ever.

Dana and Christopher were married just three years before the horse accident. Though we all die and there are certainly sad tales every day to be told of love and loss, there is just something very ironic and sad about Superman and his Lois Lane dying in their 50’s (iher 40’s).

They are flying together again, I’m sure, far, far away from any Kryptonite.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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