I am struck by the tragic events that now have led to the death of the actress, Natasha Richardson. I had not followed her career, so I cannot speak to the loss for the theater, but it is sad to see a husband and children lose a wife and mother.
And so bizarrely. Everyday, we get up and make plans for the day, usually very innocent ones that we do not expect to bring about our end. And yet, none of us know when our lives will come ina close and under what circumstances. Even with the most mundane happenstance - who hasn't fallen on a ski slope, especially when in the midst of instruction? - it is unforeseeable that we will not survive the day.
Live every day like it's your last - makes for good song lyrics, but how many of us do so? News like this hopefully serve to remind us and make us take the time to appreciate life, even if it's only to give your child an extra hug today.
I ask God to send solace and comfort to her family, and to receive her soul into His heavenly kingdom.
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Something about this strikes me as feeling the ski accident wasn't the CAUSE of death.
If reports are accurate, and her fall wasn't that bad (it was a bunny slope, and she didn't hit an object like a tree), I'm wondering if she didn't have a pre-existing condition (like an aneurysm) that was exacerbated by the fall.
Still, so sad and so sudden. She was alive on Sunday and gone by Wednesday. How precious life is.
Blunt force trauma caused the aneurysm, according to Reuters.
Her best Cinema work, IMHO, A Handmaid's Tale with Robert Duval and Faye Dunaway and Elizabeth McGovern.
Dark, apocalyptic, socialist sci-fi...chilling adaptation of a well written book.
Her death has really shaken me, even though I wasn't a fan, because I can not tell you the number of times I have fallen and hit my head. In fact I slipped and fell on the ice just at the end of January, and I hit my head.
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