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MOUNT KISCO (NEW YORK), OCT. 11. Actor Christopher Reeve, who told interviewer Barbara Walters that he considered suicide in the first days after he was injured in a riding accident nine years ago, went into cardiac arrest on Saturday while at his home in Pound Ridge, New York. He then fell into a coma and died on Sunday at a hospital surrounded by his family. In the last week, Mr. Reeve had developed a serious systemic infection from a pressure wound, a common complication for people living with paralysis. Dana Reeve, his wife, thanked her husband's personal staff of nurses and aides, ``as well as the millions of fans from around the world who have supported and loved my husband over the years.'' Mr. Reeve's life changed completely after he broke his neck in May 1995 when he was thrown from his horse during an equestrian competition. Enduring months of therapy to allow him to breathe for longer and longer periods without a respirator, Mr. Reeve emerged to lobby Congress for better insurance protection against catastrophic injury and to move an Academy Award audience to tears with a call for more films about social issues. ``Hollywood needs to do more,'' he said in the March 1996 Oscar awards appearance. ``Let's continue to take risks. Let's tackle the issues. In many ways our film community can do it better than anyone else. There is no challenge, artistic or otherwise, that we can't meet.'' His advocacy for stem cell research helped it emerge as a major campaign issue between the U.S. President, George W. Bush and his Democratic opponent, John Kerry. Mr. Reeve returned to directing, and even returned to acting in a 1998 production of ``Rear Window,'' a modern update of the Hitchcock thriller about a man in a wheelchair who becomes convinced a neighbour has been murdered. AP
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