Drudge reporting Chistopher Reeve is Dead

[ObnoxiousFrog]

Originally Posted by MrVicchio

No, but you are expected ya know, to show a tinsy bit of class and hold off on the bad mouthing for a day or so, or start your own Chris Reeve Sucks thread.

But I supose thats asking too much.

My uncle died 3 years ago, alone and depressed.

My grandmother found him dead while bringing him something to eat.

I fucking cried my eyes out

He was nobody famous. So nobody gave a shit.

The fact that Christopher Reeve is famous means that it is forced upon us to give a flying fucking shit about him. If he was just another cripple-by-his-own-design, nobody would care. But the fact that he was Superman and decided to make a massive splendor out of his accident meant that he deserves our respect and our attention.

I repeat, fuck that.

[MrVicchio]

Your a sad angry fellow. I am sorry your uncle passed away, and if you had been on these forums then, and said :oh man, my uncle passed away"

And someone said "fuck that who cares he's a nobody"

how would you feel?

[ObnoxiousFrog]

Originally Posted by MrVicchio

Your a sad angry fellow. I am sorry your uncle passed away, and if you had been on these forums then, and said :oh man, my uncle passed away"

And someone said "fuck that who cares he's a nobody"

how would you feel?

That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm talking about how somehow celebrity raises oneself in every sense of importance. If you take a trip to Iraq, it's gonna be on the news. If you fucking have lunch with somebody, it's gonna end up somewhere. If you die, you are expected to be respected by the public because you were famous and your death is so tragic.

Well I'm saying fuck that. If I thought Christopher Reeve was a good person (Rodney Dangerfield I cared about because he truely was the man, and would have been the man even if he wasn't famous) at heart, then I would be all "oh that sucks" too. But his celebrity really has nothing to do with it to me. So what if he was Superman? So what if he rose awareness for an affliction only after he fucked himself over with it? If I don't think that he, in any context other than him being a celebrity, would be mourned over genuinely for who he was as opposed to what he played, then I would be all for saying that this sucked.

But I'm just an angry little kid who has no pretense in reality.

[Everay]

you know frog, its cool to be unique, but dont push it. Reeve did some cool things, sure he did them to cure himself (donations to stem cell research), but i have a buddy thatll be dead by the time hes 30 and this kinda research could cure him.

[ObnoxiousFrog]

Originally Posted by Everay

you know frog, its cool to be unique, but dont push it. Reeve did some cool things, sure he did them to cure himself (donations to stem cell research), but i have a buddy thatll be dead by the time hes 30 and this kinda research could cure him.

I'm all for stem cell research. That's not what I'm saying at all. I hope that your friend does get cured. But I don't feel it appropriate to have anybody sitting around him thinking "thanks to Christopher Reeve, he's going to live".

[Everay]

no, but i think he helped more than Bush(example) did,

[Kikinchikin]

I don't see as to his being a celebrity makes him an asshole. Yes, it's not just that he will be mourned more than the average person dying, but that doesn't give you a reason to begin insulting his memory.

[MrVicchio]

Considering there is no ban on stem cell research, I don't see what the big deal is.

[Lonehunter]

CNN info

[Octavian]

Confirmed, it's on TV right now.

[Triggar]

This is so sad!! WHat the fuck, the guy survives this long after that shitty accident to die of friggin HEART FAILURE?!

Rest in peace, buddy. Go for a jog up there in heaven.

[firecrackerNC]

Errr I guess he won't be making any more apperances on Smallville.

[Infernus]

Not teh superman...

[JetRaiden]

hfs its real?!?!

[MrVicchio]

Yeah, its real Jr, sorry to dissapoint the "Drudge is crap" crowd, but it was a legit report.