<p>I have seen it several times and recognized her once I googled her. (Actually I’m old enough that I enjoy the original version as well - I always liked Hayley Mills). But I didn’t know she was married to Liam Neeson or that she was Redgrave’s daughter.</p>
<p>I agree, I enjoy the original movie, too. I also think Liam Neeson is an incredible actor, and partly due to his ability and willingness to expose his vulnerability on the screen. I suspect there’s a lot of passion in that man, and right now, I suspect he’s passionately feeling unfathomable pain.</p>
<p>When I heard what had happened, I pictured the funeral scene in “Love Actually” and my heart broke for him.</p>
<p>Cbreeze and Hops_Scout, did you note the NYTimes article I quoted?</p>
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<p>3bm103 - oh my gosh; I completely forgot about that (which I shouldn’t have because I’m the one who stated I think he’s such a great actor). And in that story line, he also became a single dad.</p>
<p>Yeah, we pictured him in Love Actually, too, it is soo very sad.</p>
<p>My MIL broke her leg 2 or 3 times on the bunny slope, the only 2 or 3 times she ever tried to ski. She is remarkably unathletic, so I guess bad damage can happen anywhere</p>
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<p>In fact I did. You must have missed my point. There is NO EXCUSE for not having helicopter access for medical emergencies. The only one there could be is the money factor. And that brings the other point back into contention.</p>
<p>A slight change of topic…
Apparently the funeral was held today. I have never heard of funerals on Sunday, a day of Sabath for Christians. Have you? Just curious…</p>
<p>Around where I live (and it’s borderline Bible Belt), there’s nothing unusual about funerals on Sunday.</p>
<p>I will never think of funerals again, without thinking of the music by the Bay City Rollers.</p>
<p>I read today that her organs were donated, apparently according to her wishes.</p>
<p>Good for her and for her family. I hope it gives them some comfort to know that they have helped others live.</p>
<p>There is a generous support or our school who has never recovered from the “what ifs” about her son’s head injury which was very similar to NR’s situation. A head injury that seemed to be fine that led to death. To dwell on those “what ifs” is really not useful and can be damaging. There was only good will involved here, and this is a freak situation. I wonder if even an immediate check at a major medical center would have found the problem and been able to treat it. This whole thing makes me nervous because my kids play rough sports and have had a number of head injuries. It seems to me that the ERs even in the top hospitals are not particularly scrambling if the patient is walking around and feeling just fine, and the pupils are normal. Friends of ours recently picked up their son from Holy Cross and got MRIs for a head injury he received. But it was two days after the accident before he was examined that way. Had he been injured the same way NR had been, he would have been dead as well before he got the tests. And he was knocked unconscious upon impact with memory loss!</p>
<p>NR’s kids go to school in this area, and it has been a true tragedy here. My prayers are with the family.</p>
<p>We can all give each other cyber hugs - but the reality is I would also like to know facts that I can use from this site, whether for college or anything else. Having a child who suffered a head injury at camp during a non-violent sport and was helicoptered to a trauma center I feel very close to this issue. We are fortunate not to have to go through the agony of what ifs. He is healthy and made a full recovery. Thanks to this thread I will never consider a ski trip to Mont Tremblant and I will ask questions of other resorts regarding medical capabilities.</p>
<p>There was a feature on CNN about a young girl who had been hit in the head with a baseball 2 days earlier! When her parents saw that NR had died, they immediately thought of their daughter’s incident. She was getting ready for bed alone and when they went to say good night, she complained of a headache. They rushed her to the hospital and she was flown to a children’s hospital (in OH, I think) for surgery to relieve the pressure. It was the same type of injury. Her parents said that had it not been for NR’s accident, they would have thought nothing of it, especially after 2 days. So in addition to the lives she saved with the organ donation, her story saved this girl’s life.</p>
<p>I read that story. All this is really an eye opener. I remember my son (now 22) falling and hitting his head on the fireplace as a toddler. he had a big lump and we just kept a close eye on him. Thank goodness he was ok. I would certainly act differently today.</p>
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<p>Personally I think this to be a very silly statement.</p>
<p>^^ You can think whatever you please, I prefer to be prudent.</p>
<p>Why is it a silly statement? S1 has food allergies, and before we go anywhere I check about the proximity of hospitals, in case he has an accidental exposure to nuts. We are very careful, he is very careful, and only once in his life (16 years) has he had to have the Epi-pen and go to the hospital. There were ground walnuts in butternut squash ravioli. Half a ravioli, and he was having symptoms. Epi-pen, ambulance, all night in the ER, 2 days out of school. The chances that he would have an accidental exposure in a restaurant on vacation are probably about the same as the chances of a serious injury on the ski slopes. Why take a chance on a place without nearby emergency care, when there are plenty of other choices?</p>
<p>We do a lot of travelling by car and by air. I can’t imagine mapping every single possibility in every trip on every route in every city and town for not only proximity to a trauma center but also proximity to emergency helicopter evacuation. This is not the same issue as controlling the environment for food allergies while travelling. Any ER is going to be equipped to handle anaphylactic shock, a trauma center isn’t going to be necessary. </p>
<p>The death of Natasha Richardson is tragic, and it will provide lessons to many, such as the one that was cited earlier about the family of the little girl who had been hit in the head, but there is no way to know if the outcome would have been different if she’d been wearing a helmet, or if she’d not initially refused medical treatment, or if the first hospital she finally went to had been a trauma center. As I mentioned earlier, there have been three deaths at ski hills in our area in the past month. Neither helmets nor early treatment at trauma centers saved those three. Sometimes awful things happen and it’s impossible to prevent every awful possibility. It’s wise to be prudent but carrying it to the extreme, perhaps avoiding skiing altogether would be even more wise.</p>
<p>Well, my house is 3 min from the hospital, so I guess I would be very prudent just staying home 
Why I think statements like above are silly, although each one of us is free to do whatever pleases? Let me give you an example. Something that has happened to my son last year.
We have had a very busy summer. Flights to and from Europe, the longest leg kept us on the plane for 10 hours. In Europe we visited some places that were far, far away from the hospital. Back home, S went to camp, also 4 hour away by plane. Later, his scout camp was in the middle of nowhere, with no cell reception etc.
He has spent maybe two weeks of the last summer vacation at home. Then the school starts back and two weeks into it he is suddenly (in the evening of course) developing a condition that is a real medical emergency and gives about a 6 hour window of saving an organ, from the moment of the first onset of symptoms. Lucky for S, we were 3 minutes away from the hospital. But what if it had happened on the flight from Paris, what if it had happened while he was at the scout’s camp (no phone reception, remember), what if he was hours away from home at the math camp in Texas? In the two last scenarios, he would have probably been to embarrased to even mention it to an adult, till it was too late. In the case of the flight, do you think the pilot would have landed the plane at the nearest airport? I doubt that!
Of course I am having cold sweats when I think “what if”, but I can’t think this way because it would make my life miserable.</p>
<p>As for the allergic reaction - with all due respect I do not think it is even remotely similar.
Here you are dealing with a known medical condition, a serious one, hence the epi-pen, in case you are exposed. Once you know that you have a certain allergy, you are attempting to avoid the allergen. While the ingestion might be accidental, it is a very differnt kind of accident that has happened to Natasha.</p>