OT: Natasha Richardson dies at 45 after ski accident

[jrnyman28]

Sorry, but if it isn't mandatory to wear a helmet on a motorcycle there is no way it will become mandatory for anyone to wear a helmet skiing...

[NealIsGod]

Sorry, but if it isn't mandatory to wear a helmet on a motorcycle there is no way it will become mandatory for anyone to wear a helmet skiing...

Especially not on the baby slopes. Like they say, when it's your time to go, there's nothing you can do about it.

[Shadowsong]

Sorry, but if it isn't mandatory to wear a helmet on a motorcycle there is no way it will become mandatory for anyone to wear a helmet skiing...

Whether mandatory or not anyone who rides a motorcycle without a helmut is crazy.
What kind of idiot would take a motorcycle on the road without a helmit.
I guess the kind of idiot that the world would be better off without?
A helmet can save your life...riding without one is like suicide.
I can't believe there are no mandatory regulations but maybe its true.
There is a law about seatbelts in cars as you are safer in the car rather than crashing through the windshield & thrown across the road.

I even think you should wear protective clothing when riding a motorcycle.
I see stupid girls in shorts & sandals riding behind a guy.
Do they realize with even a minor fall she could lose a large portion of her skin?
Riding a motorcycle without protection is like russian roulette.
You can be the best driver in the world but that doesn't mean you are safe from the other motorists on the road.
There is no contest between a car & motorcycle collision
the motorcycle will always loose.

My brother who 10 at the time but is no longer with us was riding his bike when a mercedes hit him.
His bike and him were thrown across the road on Queens Blvd.
He was in the hospital & I think he got some hearing lose from bleeding out of his ear.
He won a small settlement at the time of only $10,000 to compensate for his injuries.
I wonder how much it really did impede his life.
He left this world tragically at age 30 & would have been 44 this coming Saturday.
I guess we never really do get over losing a loved one.

My thoughts & prayers to the family, her two teenage children, loving husband & family & friends.
Guess we never know when we wake up if this is going to be the last day.

[jrnyman28]

Hey shadow...I agree completely. But it is left up to the rider. Basically I guess it is his/her choice if s/he wants to kill him/herself. (I drives me INSANE when I see stupid people riding in shorts and sandals!!!)

[X factor]

Horrible tragedy. I know this is gonna sound insensitive, and don't mean it to...I'm just wondering what triggers the media to cover this story like we lost one of the great actresses of our generation? They've been covering it wall to wall for 3 days. Maybe the nature of how she died..but we also lost a great actor in Ron Silver this week, and the coverage has been sparse at best. His accomplishments (on and off the screen) are just as impressive as Richardson's was..including Tony awards, and actually had a long running stint on TV with the West Wing. I guess I just don't get it.

Well, also not trying to sound insensitve, but Silver had pretty much become a B list actor. I think he was a tremendous talent, but his "star" had fallen quite a bit.
Natasha was in every way an a-lister, married to an a-lister. Either way, they are both tragic losses to the film and theatre community.

[walkslikealady]

I feel sorry for the families.

[hoagiepete]

That would be my luck on how I would go.

Killed on a Five Diamond Black Slope while propelling down the mountain doing 85 MPH? Nope...on the bunny slope with an instructor by my side. That'd be me.

It is sad though. Condolences to her family.

Been to Mont Tremblant a couple of times. Played golf, didn't ski. Pretty area. Nice folk up there.

PS I'm not a skier...so if there is no such thing as a "five diamond black slope" please don't crucify me.

[Arkansas]

I don't usually wear a helmet when I ride.
And I don't think seatbelts should be required in cars either.

My life - my choice. 'Mandatory' laws blow.


later~

[jrnyman28]

I don't usually wear a helmet when I ride.
And I don't think seatbelts should be required in cars either.

My life - my choice. 'Mandatory' laws blow.


later~

I agree to a point. I think it should probably be mandatory (for both) until something like age 25. Then it's your choice. Gotta get the kids grown up first.

[Onestepper]

Horrible tragedy. I know this is gonna sound insensitive, and don't mean it to...I'm just wondering what triggers the media to cover this story like we lost one of the great actresses of our generation? They've been covering it wall to wall for 3 days. Maybe the nature of how she died..but we also lost a great actor in Ron Silver this week, and the coverage has been sparse at best. His accomplishments (on and off the screen) are just as impressive as Richardson's was..including Tony awards, and actually had a long running stint on TV with the West Wing. I guess I just don't get it.

Well, also not trying to sound insensitve, but Silver had pretty much become a B list actor. I think he was a tremendous talent, but his "star" had fallen quite a bit.
Natasha was in every way an a-lister, married to an a-lister. Either way, they are both tragic losses to the film and theatre community.

Well I have no idea what type of box office draw either was, on stage or film. But I know that I literally had to look her up on IMDB when I saw it on TV as to who she was, and what roles she played. I just think the fascination is strange. But if it brings out the better good of taking care of yourself when you may have a head injury/concussion, I can deal with the hype.

[Onestepper]

Horrible tragedy. I know this is gonna sound insensitive, and don't mean it to...I'm just wondering what triggers the media to cover this story like we lost one of the great actresses of our generation? They've been covering it wall to wall for 3 days. Maybe the nature of how she died..but we also lost a great actor in Ron Silver this week, and the coverage has been sparse at best. His accomplishments (on and off the screen) are just as impressive as Richardson's was..including Tony awards, and actually had a long running stint on TV with the West Wing. I guess I just don't get it.

Well, also not trying to sound insensitve, but Silver had pretty much become a B list actor. I think he was a tremendous talent, but his "star" had fallen quite a bit.
Natasha was in every way an a-lister, married to an a-lister. Either way, they are both tragic losses to the film and theatre community.

edit: No idea why this was double posted.

[Don]

Horrible tragedy. I know this is gonna sound insensitive, and don't mean it to...I'm just wondering what triggers the media to cover this story like we lost one of the great actresses of our generation? They've been covering it wall to wall for 3 days. Maybe the nature of how she died..but we also lost a great actor in Ron Silver this week, and the coverage has been sparse at best. His accomplishments (on and off the screen) are just as impressive as Richardson's was..including Tony awards, and actually had a long running stint on TV with the West Wing. I guess I just don't get it.

Well, also not trying to sound insensitve, but Silver had pretty much become a B list actor. I think he was a tremendous talent, but his "star" had fallen quite a bit.
Natasha was in every way an a-lister, married to an a-lister. Either way, they are both tragic losses to the film and theatre community.

Well I have no idea what type of box office draw either was, on stage or film. But I know that I literally had to look her up on IMDB when I saw it on TV as to who she was, and what roles she played. I just think the fascination is strange. But if it brings out the better good of taking care of yourself when you may have a head injury/concussion, I can deal with the hype.

I think It's more because of her spouse and mother (Liam Neeson and Vanessa Redgrave) that she is known here in the states, but I believe she may be better well known in Great Britain for her actual acting work in film and on stage.

[NealIsGod]

I don't usually wear a helmet when I ride.
And I don't think seatbelts should be required in cars either.

My life - my choice. 'Mandatory' laws blow.


later~

I agree to a point. I think it should probably be mandatory (for both) until something like age 25. Then it's your choice. Gotta get the kids grown up first.

Yup. Let natural selection do its thing.

[StevePerryHair]

I don't usually wear a helmet when I ride.
And I don't think seatbelts should be required in cars either.

My life - my choice. 'Mandatory' laws blow.


later~

If you are in a car alone with no seatbelt, good for you on your "choice" but when you ride with others in the car without a seatbelt you become a deadly projectile to others. I think other people should get to have a choice to live.

[S2M]

Horrible tragedy. I know this is gonna sound insensitive, and don't mean it to...I'm just wondering what triggers the media to cover this story like we lost one of the great actresses of our generation? They've been covering it wall to wall for 3 days. Maybe the nature of how she died..but we also lost a great actor in Ron Silver this week, and the coverage has been sparse at best. His accomplishments (on and off the screen) are just as impressive as Richardson's was..including Tony awards, and actually had a long running stint on TV with the West Wing. I guess I just don't get it.

Well, also not trying to sound insensitve, but Silver had pretty much become a B list actor. I think he was a tremendous talent, but his "star" had fallen quite a bit.
Natasha was in every way an a-lister, married to an a-lister. Either way, they are both tragic losses to the film and theatre community.

Pardon my insensitiveness, but Natasha was hardly an A-lister. Just looked at her career at IMBD.com....Paltry compared to her husband's. Liam is an A-lister.....

[Arkansas]

I don't usually wear a helmet when I ride.
And I don't think seatbelts should be required in cars either.

My life - my choice. 'Mandatory' laws blow.


later~

I agree to a point. I think it should probably be mandatory (for both) until something like age 25. Then it's your choice. Gotta get the kids grown up first.

Yup. Let natural selection do its thing.

Yup. Just like Natasha Richardson was de-selected.


later~

[Arkansas]

I don't usually wear a helmet when I ride.
And I don't think seatbelts should be required in cars either.

My life - my choice. 'Mandatory' laws blow.


later~

If you are in a car alone with no seatbelt, good for you on your "choice" but when you ride with others in the car without a seatbelt you become a deadly projectile to others. I think other people should get to have a choice to live.

Okay, so if un-seatbelted occupants are projectiles, why then aren't seatbelts required for ALL occupants in the car?


later~

[StevePerryHair]

I don't usually wear a helmet when I ride.
And I don't think seatbelts should be required in cars either.

My life - my choice. 'Mandatory' laws blow.


later~

If you are in a car alone with no seatbelt, good for you on your "choice" but when you ride with others in the car without a seatbelt you become a deadly projectile to others. I think other people should get to have a choice to live.

Okay, so if un-seatbelted occupants are projectiles, why then aren't seatbelts required for ALL occupants in the car?


later~

They are and they SHOULD BE, but people like you fight those laws. There is proof of flying bodies killing other occupants. Look it up. Maybe someday there will be a law. It doesnt' take a rocket scientist to know that a body flying forward could kill someone in the front seat when they impact them.

Here is a graphic simulated youtube explaining it if you cant' imagine it yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT5e44lt ... re=related

And here is the graphic explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi5-iVb1YKA&NR=1

[X factor]

Horrible tragedy. I know this is gonna sound insensitive, and don't mean it to...I'm just wondering what triggers the media to cover this story like we lost one of the great actresses of our generation? They've been covering it wall to wall for 3 days. Maybe the nature of how she died..but we also lost a great actor in Ron Silver this week, and the coverage has been sparse at best. His accomplishments (on and off the screen) are just as impressive as Richardson's was..including Tony awards, and actually had a long running stint on TV with the West Wing. I guess I just don't get it.

Well, also not trying to sound insensitve, but Silver had pretty much become a B list actor. I think he was a tremendous talent, but his "star" had fallen quite a bit.
Natasha was in every way an a-lister, married to an a-lister. Either way, they are both tragic losses to the film and theatre community.

Pardon my insensitiveness, but Natasha was hardly an A-lister. Just looked at her career at IMBD.com....Paltry compared to her husband's. Liam is an A-lister.....

Can we all stop being so damned insensitive????

Agreed that Liam is a much bigger draw, but she was no slouch, and was in some pretty big flicks in her prime. (Nell, Parent Trap, etc) and her stage credits were very impressive. But, I think whomever pointed out that she was a Redgrave hit it. They're like the Kennedys of the acting world.

[Marabelle]

i don't think anyone will care except perhaps on internet boards if she was an a lister or not cause it does not matter. she had a radiant smile, bubbly personality; kind wit and sparkling loving eyes that many people admired; she was loved deeply by her husband, cherished by her children and will be missed by many others for the warm radiance that shone brightly from her beautiful soul.

[Shadowsong]

I think by judging her life on only her acting accomplishments we are missing the point.
Everyone has loved ones & some of us are more well known than others
but that doesn't mean any one of us is really better than the other.
A life is a life. Everyone is someones daddy, mother, sister, brother, daughter, son, friend or lover.


The point here is we live in a country with access to safety equipment & good medical care
& it is a right & a privilege to make use of it.

Now this woman had access to good health care & she died because she felt she wasn't injured enough to seek medical care.
Seems that in about that hour she got the headache it was already becoming too late. It doesn't take long for the pressure building up to destroy alot of brain tissue. So maybe if they had not waited that hour they might have been able to save her life. Just one hour so there really wasn't much time. A sad accident in which maybe only a helmet might have made the difference between life & death.
That is a sad waste of her life & sorrow for her loved ones.

I can't see why any of us are taking the time to waste our breath arguing whether or not this woman was accomplished enough to deserve this attention when we really should be searching into our own lives & what we want from our own existance.
Bottom line is mankind still has a strong urge for survival & I would hope that we would be smart enough to try to utilize every means available that the 21ST Century has gifted us with to preserve this gift we call life.

I fell off a balcony 10 feet this past summer. I had no health care but since I couldn't really respond to commands the ambulance or maybe it was the Fire Dept as I don't remember had to take me to the hospital.
Turns out I was lucky & had no detectable injuries but now I am stuck with in excess of $30,000 of hospital bills.
No way I can pay it even in installments as I am on a low fixed income but I have to deal with it & perhaps file banktruptcy.
It's a real hardship for me now but all in all I guess my life is worth the $30K.
I would however like to sue the ambulance medics who were shaking me like a ragdoll while it was quite likely that I could have had back or head trauma. Still it was like I was out of my body looking down not able to talk.
Pointless though as they never sent me a bill & I can't prove they injured me but they were wrong & I remember thinking in the hospital
that those morons messed me up so much that they couldn't put me back together. I really thought my back was broken. Still they did take me to the best hospital & I don;t know why but I am lucky to have been treated at Cedar Sinai.
They called me Romeo & later my employer said that they gave me an alias Romeo Trauma to protect me so that no one would know who I was as they were concerned I was a victim of a crime. They must have really sedated me as I lost a few days. It was dark & like time had stopped.
Ouch some of it is coming back to me.
I remember darkness & my entire body just feeling deep cold aches.
Sorry this is not about me but it's bringing back memories.

Anyway,

The lesson is that it is better to learn from someone elses mistake & try to prevent them before they become our own.
I guess my wrestle with mortality has left me feeling very blessed!!!!
Luckliy for me I have lots of thick hair & it has cushioned many a fall...

[Carla777]

so tragic...i remember her from the movies Nell and Gothic, beside beautiful she was a good actress, what a lost!

[Arkansas]

...they SHOULD BE, but people like you fight those laws. ...

They should be? I don't know of any law telling us that back seat passengers should be restrained. I'd bet though that if there were enough conclusive studies on this & enough money-slinging lobby'rs, then the politicians & insurance companies would be seaking further control of all drivers/vehicles.

Btw, 'people like you' don't fight any laws. We just ignore them because they infringe on our civil liberties. But if you think 'people like you' should control us, then 'people like you' should be fighting the existing laws even harder...to control us further. Keep clamping down because 'people like you' feel the need to tell everyone how to live. Soon, cars/vehicles will be outlawed because those things are the very source of our deaths. Forget seatbelts. Just get rid of the cars. Problem solved, no?




later~

[stevew2]

It must of been a freak accident, nobody wears a helmet sking on a beginner slope.it was a shame

[Shadowsong]

It must of been a freak accident, nobody wears a helmet sking on a beginner slope.it was a shame

It does seem that it was just her time...but tell that to her husband, children & parents...
You really can't live your life in a bubble...still it;s such a shame!

[walkslikealady]

I think by judging her life on only her acting accomplishments we are missing the point.
Everyone has loved ones & some of us are more well known than others
but that doesn't mean any one of us is really better than the other.
A life is a life. Everyone is someones daddy, mother, sister, brother, daughter, son, friend or lover.


The point here is we live in a country with access to safety equipment & good medical care
& it is a right & a privilege to make use of it.

Now this woman had access to good health care & she died because she felt she wasn't injured enough to seek medical care.
Seems that in about that hour she got the headache it was already becoming too late. It doesn't take long for the pressure building up to destroy alot of brain tissue. So maybe if they had not waited that hour they might have been able to save her life. Just one hour so there really wasn't much time. A sad accident in which maybe only a helmet might have made the difference between life & death.
That is a sad waste of her life & sorrow for her loved ones.

I can't see why any of us are taking the time to waste our breath arguing whether or not this woman was accomplished enough to deserve this attention when we really should be searching into our own lives & what we want from our own existance.
Bottom line is mankind still has a strong urge for survival & I would hope that we would be smart enough to try to utilize every means available that the 21ST Century has gifted us with to preserve this gift we call life.

I fell off a balcony 10 feet this past summer. I had no health care but since I couldn't really respond to commands the ambulance or maybe it was the Fire Dept as I don't remember had to take me to the hospital.
Turns out I was lucky & had no detectable injuries but now I am stuck with in excess of $30,000 of hospital bills.
No way I can pay it even in installments as I am on a low fixed income but I have to deal with it & perhaps file banktruptcy.
It's a real hardship for me now but all in all I guess my life is worth the $30K.
I would however like to sue the ambulance medics who were shaking me like a ragdoll while it was quite likely that I could have had back or head trauma. Still it was like I was out of my body looking down not able to talk.
Pointless though as they never sent me a bill & I can't prove they injured me but they were wrong & I remember thinking in the hospital
that those morons messed me up so much that they couldn't put me back together. I really thought my back was broken. Still they did take me to the best hospital & I don;t know why but I am lucky to have been treated at Cedar Sinai.
They called me Romeo & later my employer said that they gave me an alias Romeo Trauma to protect me so that no one would know who I was as they were concerned I was a victim of a crime. They must have really sedated me as I lost a few days. It was dark & like time had stopped.
Ouch some of it is coming back to me.
I remember darkness & my entire body just feeling deep cold aches.
Sorry this is not about me but it's bringing back memories.

Anyway,

The lesson is that it is better to learn from someone elses mistake & try to prevent them before they become our own.
I guess my wrestle with mortality has left me feeling very blessed!!!!
Luckliy for me I have lots of thick hair & it has cushioned many a fall...

Shadow, does the hospital you were in have s Social Worker on their staff? There may be a program that can help with paying your debt if you're in a low income bracket. One of the times I ended up in the ER and overnight, tyhey wiped out my entire debt.

[Shadowsong]

Thanks, I am working with some agencies n things but it's been a long hard battle.
Things are in the mix so nothing else I can do but hold on & hope for the best.

[StevePerryHair]

...they SHOULD BE, but people like you fight those laws. ...

They should be? I don't know of any law telling us that back seat passengers should be restrained. I'd bet though that if there were enough conclusive studies on this & enough money-slinging lobby'rs, then the politicians & insurance companies would be seaking further control of all drivers/vehicles.

Btw, 'people like you' don't fight any laws. We just ignore them because they infringe on our civil liberties. But if you think 'people like you' should control us, then 'people like you' should be fighting the existing laws even harder...to control us further. Keep clamping down because 'people like you' feel the need to tell everyone how to live. Soon, cars/vehicles will be outlawed because those things are the very source of our deaths. Forget seatbelts. Just get rid of the cars. Problem solved, no?




later~

Politics are why there ISN'T a law for that yet. Because of just what you said "civil liberties." Where are the rights for the other people in the car who maybe don't want to be injured or killed by your body because you choose not to wear one? Do you know how physics works? I mean REALLY??? You will argue this? A body has a strong enough impact without a seatbelt to go through a WINDSHEILD and you think that same body can't kill another human being?? PLEASE!! I FORCE everyone to wear seatbelts in my car or they don't ride with me. It's too bad so many people don't realize the risk they are to others by making that dumb choice for themselves just because it's not a "law" and the "civil liberties" lawyers have done such a great job fighting it

We know a family who ignored those laws. They didnt' have their sons seatbelted and neither was dad. Their son was in the back seat and his body impact was so strong he hit his dad's head (the driver) with his mouth and his teeth came out and were IMBEDDED in his dad's head. Their other son was thrown from the car, and dad ended up in the end under his dashboard and had serious injuries. They were all airlifted and miraculously lived after many many months of physical therapy and surgery. They were LUCKY. Their mother was not in the car and in one night she thought she lost her whole family. It was NOT a crash that would have had that kind of injury had they NOT ignored the LAW. And dad is lucky that was a little boy or he may have had a broken neck instead of teeth in his head. The other driver who hit them running a red light while they were turning, had a seatbelt on no injuries. Like I said, if people want to die, like those without motorcycle helmets, LET THEM. But when you start involving other lives because of your poor choices is where I have a problem. And this is just ONE story of a family I know personally. Police see these accidents everyday. And DUH, you can die in a crash with a seatbelt, but your chances are so much greater without it, who with half a brain would make the choice not to wear one? I don't get it.

An honestly, most people don't care that they have reversed the helmet law in a lot of states for motorcycles. You are a single driver and if you don't care what will happen to your head if it hits the ground even at a slight impact, then go for it! That doesn't affect OTHER lives. It's the same with the smoking laws. I am all for them because it affects OTHER lives. Everyone else's "civil liberties" should count for something.

[X factor]

I think by judging her life on only her acting accomplishments we are missing the point.
Everyone has loved ones & some of us are more well known than others
but that doesn't mean any one of us is really better than the other.
A life is a life. Everyone is someones daddy, mother, sister, brother, daughter, son, friend or lover.


The point here is we live in a country with access to safety equipment & good medical care
& it is a right & a privilege to make use of it.

Now this woman had access to good health care & she died because she felt she wasn't injured enough to seek medical care.
Seems that in about that hour she got the headache it was already becoming too late. It doesn't take long for the pressure building up to destroy alot of brain tissue. So maybe if they had not waited that hour they might have been able to save her life. Just one hour so there really wasn't much time. A sad accident in which maybe only a helmet might have made the difference between life & death.
That is a sad waste of her life & sorrow for her loved ones.

I can't see why any of us are taking the time to waste our breath arguing whether or not this woman was accomplished enough to deserve this attention when we really should be searching into our own lives & what we want from our own existance.
Bottom line is mankind still has a strong urge for survival & I would hope that we would be smart enough to try to utilize every means available that the 21ST Century has gifted us with to preserve this gift we call life.

I fell off a balcony 10 feet this past summer. I had no health care but since I couldn't really respond to commands the ambulance or maybe it was the Fire Dept as I don't remember had to take me to the hospital.
Turns out I was lucky & had no detectable injuries but now I am stuck with in excess of $30,000 of hospital bills.
No way I can pay it even in installments as I am on a low fixed income but I have to deal with it & perhaps file banktruptcy.
It's a real hardship for me now but all in all I guess my life is worth the $30K.
I would however like to sue the ambulance medics who were shaking me like a ragdoll while it was quite likely that I could have had back or head trauma. Still it was like I was out of my body looking down not able to talk.
Pointless though as they never sent me a bill & I can't prove they injured me but they were wrong & I remember thinking in the hospital
that those morons messed me up so much that they couldn't put me back together. I really thought my back was broken. Still they did take me to the best hospital & I don;t know why but I am lucky to have been treated at Cedar Sinai.
They called me Romeo & later my employer said that they gave me an alias Romeo Trauma to protect me so that no one would know who I was as they were concerned I was a victim of a crime. They must have really sedated me as I lost a few days. It was dark & like time had stopped.
Ouch some of it is coming back to me.
I remember darkness & my entire body just feeling deep cold aches.
Sorry this is not about me but it's bringing back memories.

Anyway,

The lesson is that it is better to learn from someone elses mistake & try to prevent them before they become our own.
I guess my wrestle with mortality has left me feeling very blessed!!!!
Luckliy for me I have lots of thick hair & it has cushioned many a fall...

Not judging at all- merely responding to someones question of why her death recieved more press than Ron Silver's.

[Onestepper]

I think by judging her life on only her acting accomplishments we are missing the point.
Everyone has loved ones & some of us are more well known than others
but that doesn't mean any one of us is really better than the other.
A life is a life. Everyone is someones daddy, mother, sister, brother, daughter, son, friend or lover.


The point here is we live in a country with access to safety equipment & good medical care
& it is a right & a privilege to make use of it.

Now this woman had access to good health care & she died because she felt she wasn't injured enough to seek medical care.
Seems that in about that hour she got the headache it was already becoming too late. It doesn't take long for the pressure building up to destroy alot of brain tissue. So maybe if they had not waited that hour they might have been able to save her life. Just one hour so there really wasn't much time. A sad accident in which maybe only a helmet might have made the difference between life & death.
That is a sad waste of her life & sorrow for her loved ones.

I can't see why any of us are taking the time to waste our breath arguing whether or not this woman was accomplished enough to deserve this attention when we really should be searching into our own lives & what we want from our own existance.
Bottom line is mankind still has a strong urge for survival & I would hope that we would be smart enough to try to utilize every means available that the 21ST Century has gifted us with to preserve this gift we call life.

I fell off a balcony 10 feet this past summer. I had no health care but since I couldn't really respond to commands the ambulance or maybe it was the Fire Dept as I don't remember had to take me to the hospital.
Turns out I was lucky & had no detectable injuries but now I am stuck with in excess of $30,000 of hospital bills.
No way I can pay it even in installments as I am on a low fixed income but I have to deal with it & perhaps file banktruptcy.
It's a real hardship for me now but all in all I guess my life is worth the $30K.
I would however like to sue the ambulance medics who were shaking me like a ragdoll while it was quite likely that I could have had back or head trauma. Still it was like I was out of my body looking down not able to talk.
Pointless though as they never sent me a bill & I can't prove they injured me but they were wrong & I remember thinking in the hospital
that those morons messed me up so much that they couldn't put me back together. I really thought my back was broken. Still they did take me to the best hospital & I don;t know why but I am lucky to have been treated at Cedar Sinai.
They called me Romeo & later my employer said that they gave me an alias Romeo Trauma to protect me so that no one would know who I was as they were concerned I was a victim of a crime. They must have really sedated me as I lost a few days. It was dark & like time had stopped.
Ouch some of it is coming back to me.
I remember darkness & my entire body just feeling deep cold aches.
Sorry this is not about me but it's bringing back memories.

Anyway,

The lesson is that it is better to learn from someone elses mistake & try to prevent them before they become our own.
I guess my wrestle with mortality has left me feeling very blessed!!!!
Luckliy for me I have lots of thick hair & it has cushioned many a fall...

Not judging at all- merely responding to someones question of why her death recieved more press than Ron Silver's.

Thank you and exactly. It had nothing to do with who was more popular. You made the point well.