For about 10 minutes, Christopher Reeve wanted to end his life. So when wife Dana Reeve told him to wait and, if he still felt that way in two years, then they'd figure it out, he knew what she was doing.

"On one level, you could say she used the oldest selling technique in the book," the Superman star, who would've turned 73 on Sept. 25, recalled in his 2002 memoir Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life. "You offer customers a free trial, a free sample, with no obligation and no money down, in order to get them on the hook."

But in this case, he continued, "On another level, a much deeper one where our love and respect for each other has always lived, she knew that I was in the first stage of a natural reaction to tragedy. Asking me to wait was the perfect cou

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