From the CBS Early Show, [UK] Times, USA Today:

Christopher Anderson, author of an unauthorized biography called “Somewhere in Heaven,” says a pact with his wife kept actor Christopher Reeve alive for ten years after the accident that caused his paralysis. Anderson said Reeve was bent on suicide after being thrown from a horse, but his wife Dana convinced him to keep going.

“She said ‘I still love you.’ Then she made a pact with him. ‘Hold on for two years, if you still feel this way two years from now we will reconsider this question.’ She said that was just a sales ploy,” said Anderson.

… “She wasn’t just resilient,” he said. “She was joyful about life. I think that really came through. She made jokes about being called a saint all the time. She didn’t like it. She said ‘I’m just a woman whose husband fell off a horse and I’m taking care of him and that’s what you do.’”

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Earlier post: Dad was a superman to the end

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