Her death was especially poignant for me because her case and mine are so very similar. I even had sent her a copy of the newspaper article I wrote (Part 1 of my article) (Part 2 my article) and my book, Practical Truisms, just 2 weeks before she died. I really believed that she too would go into remission like me, and then she would do for lung cancer what she and Christopher Reeve did for Paralysis. And I was going to help her do that; we would do that together, I thought. This is an NBC-news interview with me just an hour after I learned that she had died.

I saw her last interview and she intended to tackle lung cancer. She called it "an obligation. Rent due for being a human being on Earth." Her death, such a loss to a world that needs more people like her, will not be meaningless. As long as my body cooperates and keeps me cancer-free, I will do the best I can to do the work she no longer can.

From Good Morning America:
Dana's Final Days
Dana Reeve dies at 44
Young Women and Lung Cancer
- A Mysterious Link
No funds=No cure. Others like Dana will die

"Cry In The Rain" by Christine Stewart and Mark Mrkus
Dedicated to the memory of Dana Reeve and Christine Stewart