Gone at 44

Last night when I was channel surfing trying to find something of interest to watch, while I was waiting for the laundry, I happened to stop at a random news channel. Accross the screen scrolls Dana Reeve dead at the age of 44, Dana loses battle just 4 1/2 months after being diagnosed with lung cancer, she did not smoke.... I didn't know this woman personally, but I knew of her and all the tendor care she gave her husband Christifer Reeve (Superman) , all the fundraising she did to help with stemcell research, and how others spoke of how she was an amazing person, a light in a dim lite room, a very compassionate and loving human being.... Through the years I have read articles about the Reeve family, saw many pictures taken of them, seen video footage of them, seen several interviews. I heard her discribe her husband as her best friend, her hero, and how she admired the positive attitude he managed to keep in the face of adversity, not just occasionaly but everyday, that he gave her strength and courage, and when he died how she missed his presence in her life just to face each day without him was a struggle.......I came to admire this family, and how their life touched others in such a profound way.... I know people deal with struggles and difficulties everyday, and that each and every one of us at some point in our lives have to dig deep down in side and find that part of ourselves that gets us through, some more so than others, but the only differance is were not in the public eye ....I feel deeply for their 13 year old son to lose both parents in the span of less then two years....What a sad ending to their story, but then they are together again aren't they....