I'm only a man in a silly red sheet...

[rikibeth]

Dammit.

This wasn't the way the story was supposed to end.

He was Superman.

He was supposed to pull off a miracle and walk again.

And stem cell research would prosper and thrive because of his success.

Rest in peace, Christopher Reeve. You will be missed.

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Chris Reeves was attended to by a loving wife and family, and had the absolutely the best medical care that a movie star's money could buy ( in addition to any othe rmoney that he had invested. He was massages, had his limbs worked and his skin was contstantly watched. He still died a frightningly common disease of bacterial infection.
Part of this is stem cell research, to be sure. But this also comes down to the old fashioned ( tongue firmly in cheek) field of microbiology and virology, which has not been front and center lately. I would not be surpised if a superbug such as Staph, E.Coli, or Camptor was found in his blood work.