Superman's widow passes

Cancer claims Superman's widow

The wife of late Superman actor Christopher Reeve, who became an influential health activist after the star's death, has died.

Dana Reeve, who nursed the paralysed actor for nine years until his death in 2004, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44.

The Christopher Reeve Foundation, which backs research on the treatment of spinal cord injuries said Mrs Reeve, a nonsmoker and mother of a teenage son, had died on Monday night.

Christopher and Dana Reeve married in 1992. Life changed drastically for the glamorous showbiz couple three years later when Christopher Reeve suffered near-total paralysis in a horse-riding accident and almost died.

With him, she became an activist in the search for a cure for spinal cord injuries.

Posted by Ron at March 8, 2006 07:43 AM