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lsue

March 17th, 2009, 5:06 pm

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172009/news/worldnews/natasha_richardson_is_brain_dead_160027.htm

Brain dead, already being flown back home for final goodbye to
her family. How very, very sad.

Dreamy

March 17th, 2009, 5:13 pm

Wow,very sad! She must have hit her head in just the wrong way. Her poor family. :(

lsue

March 17th, 2009, 5:16 pm

I didn't know she was married to Liam Neeson. I've liked her since
seeing her in Parent Trap about a jillion times. Lots of good actors in
that family.

JimGP20

March 17th, 2009, 5:17 pm

I read about this earlier today. Apparently, the accident wasn't really that bad, no blood or anything. She began to feel bad about an hour afterward, and then it just got worse. I send out my prayers for her and her family.

super cool ski instructor

March 17th, 2009, 5:27 pm

Wow...how terrible. I am such a fan of her and Liam Neeson.

livia

March 17th, 2009, 5:30 pm

Crikey! i didn't realise it was as serious as this. Loved her in The Handmaid's Tale and good old Liam, is from my hometown. Poor man and their poor family:-(

RTchoke

March 17th, 2009, 5:32 pm

This is so sad. She is a great actress. I feel so bad for her family. :(

jelake

March 17th, 2009, 5:49 pm

No one has said what caused this. Pre-existing condition I wonder. Very sad.

Vaard

March 17th, 2009, 5:57 pm

<sigh>

tragic........

i dont think i have seen any of her films, but i love her husbands work.........

ExDem

March 17th, 2009, 6:13 pm

Very sad, indeed. I feel bad for her two sons. Her husband is nothing but a hotty.

bella-day

March 17th, 2009, 6:31 pm

How sad. What a shock this must be for her family and friends.

nortman

March 17th, 2009, 7:01 pm

So much sadness happening. She will be missed. I feel so bad for her family.

sgtmac_46

March 17th, 2009, 7:44 pm

*** is with celebrities and skiing accidents?

LoneStarHero

March 17th, 2009, 7:53 pm

I guess that means my 11 years of telling Sonny Bono jokes have come to an end now.

There is a new skiing accident poster child for the 21st century now!

drylok

March 17th, 2009, 8:03 pm

Oh man I didn't realize who that was. My wife loves Parent Trap.

God Speed To Her And Hers :pray:

Dreamy

March 17th, 2009, 8:25 pm

There is no evidence that her brain trauma was the result of the fall? Perhaps she just had a cerebrel bleed that caused her to fall.

lsue

March 17th, 2009, 10:33 pm

There is no evidence that her brain trauma was the result of the fall? Perhaps she just had a cerebrel bleed that caused her to fall.

Something about the fall was troubling enough to the instructors
that they took her back to the lodge to be checked out. Brain
injuries are tricky things. My husband took a fall, hit the crown
of his head...brain bleed, but thankfully recovered without any
serious effects. His hospital nurse said another young fellow had
had nearly the same injury, but he didn't make it.

conservateincali

March 17th, 2009, 10:34 pm

Very tragic. My heart goes out to her family.

FidelisAdMortem

March 17th, 2009, 10:47 pm

*** is with celebrities and skiing accidents?

Tell me about it.

Tragedy every day though to regular people.

Prayers to all that endure such pain in their lives.

mom4conservatives

March 17th, 2009, 10:58 pm

This so said and so unfortunate. My prayers go out to her family and friends!!

jeepers

March 17th, 2009, 11:16 pm

This is shockingly horrible and tragic. Prayers and condolences to her family.

My guess is that she had either a cerebral event that caused the fall or the fall triggered a brain bleed from some sort of already preexisting condition, congenital or otherwise.

Either way it doesn't matter. It's just very sad.

Ballygrl

March 17th, 2009, 11:24 pm

God Bless her family :cry:

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/03/17/Report_Natasha_Richardson_dead_at_45/UPI-37941237286961/

Report: Natasha Richardson dead at 45

NEW YORK, March 17 (UPI) -- Natasha Richardson died Tuesday, a day after suffering a head injury in a Canadian skiing accident, a source close to her family told OK!. She was 45.

The magazine said on its Web site that Richardson's loved ones decided to take her off life support Tuesday after she was declared brain dead.

"The family is devastated," the source told OK!

The British-born actress was the daughter of stage and film great Vanessa Redgrave and the late director-producer Tony Richardson. She also was the sister of actress Joely Richardson and the wife of Northern Irish actor Liam Neeson, her co-star in the 1994 movie "Nell."

She had two sons with Neeson -- 13-year-old Micheal and 12-year-old Daniel.

Richardson appeared in the movies "Gothic," "Blow Dry," "The Parent Trap," "Haven," "Maid in Manhattan," "Asylum" and "The White Countess." She won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway revival of the musical "Cabaret."

"Batman Begins," "Schindler's List" and "Michael Collins" star Neeson can be seen in the current release "Taken."

He left the Toronto set of his movie "Chloe" immediately to fly to Montreal where his wife was hospitalized after her accident, a representative for the film told IrishCentral.com.

The New York Daily News said Neeson accompanied Richardson on the flight home from Montreal to New York where her family gathered Tuesday to say goodbye to the actress.

Richardson reportedly sustained her injuries while skiing on a beginner slope at a Quebec resort with at least one of her sons.

Ballygrl

March 18th, 2009, 12:26 am

Apologies, now UPI changed their headline and said she's brain dead.

No idea why these news agencies report 1 thing then change it, you would think they had the info before they published it.

dbs944

March 18th, 2009, 10:02 am

Skiing without a helmet is just plain stupid. I'm pretty good and don't fall very often but my helmet saved my head twice so far. Both times on pretty shallow slopes. They are very light and comfortable and are warmed than stocking caps.

We've had at least two from this area die on ski slopes this year. Skiing deaths are a pretty close held secret, probably only getting reported in teh victim's home town.

WEAR A HELMET!!!!

Lady Liberty

March 18th, 2009, 10:57 am

How very sad. My prayers go out to the family. 45 is so young. It makes me treasure the time I have and those I love.
~

mysticbeauty_nbeast

March 18th, 2009, 2:34 pm

This news stopped me cold when I heard it yesterday afternoon. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. My family and I loved her in the new Parent Trap...and it's hard to think of her as gone.

I had no idea Vanessa Redgrave was her Mother...that poor woman...she's endured so much strife and sorrow in her life. I can't imagine what she's going through right now. As parents, we are always ready to go first....and it's beyond hard to have a child move on from this earth before you.

I don't know if an autopsy will be preformed...I imagine it will due to the young age Natasha was at time of her death. Perhaps we will know then if the fall during skiing or a separate and unrelated cerebral event caused her death. Either way, a horrible loss for her family and loved one's.

God keep you close Natasha...Rest in peace.

~Mysty

LouC

March 18th, 2009, 3:11 pm

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172009/news/worldnews/natasha_richardson_is_brain_dead_160027.htm

Brain dead, already being flown back home for final goodbye to
her family. How very, very sad.

I don't know why but this has struck me as so very sad and almost feels personal (?), I am not even that terribly familiar with her but it has really bugged me.

Prayers for her and her family.

JimGP20

March 18th, 2009, 3:21 pm

I don't know why but this has struck me as so very sad and almost feels personal (?), I am not even that terribly familiar with her but it has really bugged me.

Prayers for her and her family.

Oddly, it has hit me in the same way and I can't explain why. Perhaps it's because the fall she took just seemed to be a run of the mill fall... it wasn't a violent accident. It reminds me of when Dale Earnhardt died.... his crash just didn't look that bad when compared to other crashes at Daytona.... it was just all the wrong circumstances happening at the fateful moment.

Ballygrl

March 18th, 2009, 4:42 pm

I don't know why but this has struck me as so very sad and almost feels personal (?), I am not even that terribly familiar with her but it has really bugged me.

Prayers for her and her family.

I feel the same way. I think for me it's because it seemed so minor what happened to her initially, how many of us banged our heads at 1 time or another? and by all accounts, this was just a minor fall, so how could it go from that to being brain dead within hours.

I also feel so bad because she has a couple of kids and they're still so young.

Dreamy

March 18th, 2009, 4:50 pm

Oddly, it has hit me in the same way and I can't explain why. Perhaps it's because the fall she took just seemed to be a run of the mill fall... it wasn't a violent accident. It reminds me of when Dale Earnhardt died.... his crash just didn't look that bad when compared to other crashes at Daytona.... it was just all the wrong circumstances happening at the fateful moment.

The absolute fragility of life. That is what makes it so precious. And she is near the age of many of us too. When we leave on a trip,vacation,to the store or work or just to sleep, we just don't know.

Stuball

March 18th, 2009, 6:32 pm

RTchoke

March 18th, 2009, 6:51 pm

According to reports, Natasha was taken off of life support at 1:30 pm and has passed away.

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_5_0_t&usg=AFQjCNEiJK1SLG2mkpfvIWH4Bu6Y1-us9Q&cid=0&ei=WWrBSZieHaDM8ASa5a3sAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.babble.com.au%2F2009%2F03%2F1 9%2Fnatasha-richardson-pulled-from-life-support-at-130-pm%2F

nortman

March 18th, 2009, 8:57 pm

nortman

March 18th, 2009, 8:58 pm

I loved her in "Blow Dry" with Alan Rickman (Severus Snape). It was a pretty funny movie.

EmmanuelGoldstein

March 18th, 2009, 9:08 pm

<sigh>

tragic........

i dont think i have seen any of her films, but i love her husbands work.........
I didn't even know who she was. My prayers go out to her family.

JimGP20

March 18th, 2009, 9:33 pm

She's gone. :cry:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29733775/?gt1=43001

mom4conservatives

March 19th, 2009, 12:26 am

She's gone. :cry:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29733775/?gt1=43001

I can't believe it!! I am so sad and shocked. More so than usual and I don't know why. I just know that her memory lives on in her children and her legacy. My prayer is for her family and friends in what must be the most difficult of times. God Bless you on your journey to heaven!!

sgtmac_46

March 19th, 2009, 5:29 am

Remus Lupin

March 19th, 2009, 6:05 am

R.i.p!

Spiked101

March 19th, 2009, 6:06 am

May the loving arms of the Lord embrace her now and also comfort her family. This is very sad and my prayers go out to her family and especially those two boys.

LoneStarHero

March 19th, 2009, 9:43 am

The first time I wasever invited to go skiing
As soon as I got out of the car I saw a guy being stabalized with a head brace and a helicopter came by moments later to transport him to a hospital
I stayed in the ski lodge the whole weekend

I got a concussion in 8th grade skiing and had to be ambluanced down the mountain all the way to Portland.

I think I'm done with skiing though, as my joints, cartilage, bone and tendons probably are not near resilient enough to absorb my many imminent wipeouts.

I'll just stick to rugby for my thrills.