Comments on Christopher Reeve
Rob at Gut Rumbles
echoes some of my thoughts on the recent life of Christopher Reeve:
bq. I'm going to get really existential here. If I were Christopher Reeve, I would rather have died falling off that horse than stay alive the way he did. He spent nine years with his mind intact and his body dead from the neck down.
bq. What a horrible way to live.
My thoughts too -- the human body doesn't really function below a spinal column break. The fact that Reeve survived as long as he did was a testament to the wonderful care he was able to receive.
Other people do not have this advantage and die slowly, bit by bit over a year or two. The human body does not function well below the point of a spinal column injure. Para's have it better in that they have more upper body to compensate. Quads do not do well at all.
Posted by DaveH at October 13, 2004 12:30 AM