Christopher Reeve was paid $250,000 to play Superman. After a horse threw him in 1995, his care was expected to cost about $400,000 a year, and he asked his wife if it would be better for him to stop living.
In the video below, months after the accident, he tells Barbara Walters what she said next.
Superman made Reeve a household name. He went on to earn $1 million each for Superman III and IV.
In May 1995, his horse stopped at a jump during a competition in Virginia. Reeve flew over its head, landed on his head and broke his neck. He was paralyzed from the neck down and couldn't breathe without a machine.
Lying in the hospital, he told his wife Dana that maybe it wasn't worth everyone's trouble, and that he should just be allowed to die. She told him: "You're still you, and I love you."
He says the thought disappeared when his kids walked into the room, and it never came back.
One of the first times he laughed again was when his old Juilliard classmate Robin Williams burst into his room dressed as a crazy Russian doctor.
Reeve spent the next nine years fighting for spinal cord research. He died in 2004 at 52. Dana died of lung cancer less than two years later. She was 44.
Is this what real love looks like, or is that kind of love just gone today?
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