Just a reminder. The New Medicine: Returning the Human Touch to High-Tech Care, a PBS two hour documentary hosted by Dana Reeve, will air on Wednesday, March 29 at 9:00 ET. Filmed three months before her death, Dana was said to be upbeat and optimistic about the future.

"She was very hopeful at that point that she would survive," director Muffie Meyer recalled. "She was buying Christmas presents for her son that day, and really had a tremendous amount of energy. She seemed wonderful, and very, very grounded and strong."

The profound loss of Dana Reeve to lung cancer is still such a shock for many of us. The central theme of the documentary looks at how mainstream doctors are embracing treatment of the whole patient and not merely the symptoms of a disease. Dana Reeve embraced the world, and this documentary almost feels like a gift she left for us - to inspire us - and to enlighten us to healing perspectives she felt were important in facing the challenges and obstacles of disease.

I think Will Reeve has been on the hearts and minds of all parents as he suffers the loss of his mother, Dana Reeve. As parents, it is instinctual to want to protect children. But no one can give back what was taken from Will, or protect him from the pain. It is comforting to know he is surrounded by an abundance of love and support.

Thursday evening, Inside Edition reported Lance Armstrong spent Wednesday with 13-year-old Will Reeve, less than two days after his mother, Dana Reeve, died of lung cancer. “I would say that his spirits were pretty good considering that, in the last 18 months, he’s lost his father, his mother and his grandmother,” stated Armstrong during the television interview. “In situations like this, all you can do is say, ‘Hey buddy, I’m here if you want to go hang out, if you want to play games, whatever you want to do, I’m here.”’

Armstrong said he became close to Will as he spent time with Will during the last few months of his mother's life. “I love hanging with him,” Armstrong said. “I never thought I’d say that about a 13-year-old, but he’s a great kid. He’s a big sports fan. He’s an athlete himself. Will is not your normal 13-year-old. He’s a smart, well-adjusted, mature, humble kid.”

Tuesday, Armstrong was a speaker at a motivational conference in Montreal, when he was told of Dana Reeve's death. "Now that Dana Reeve has unfortunately passed away, it brings a whole new level of awareness to the disease and I think Peter Jennings' passing was huge for cancer. We don't ever want to lose anybody, but when Peter Jennings dies of lung cancer, people say, 'oh, my god, what - Peter Jennings died?'" Armstrong said.

Armstrong feels that high profile survivors and cancer victims both contribute to awareness about the disease. He also said that he hopes high-profile deaths will bring attention to the fact that more needs to be done in the fight against cancer. "It's been a long time since we decided to fight this war and we're not doing enough," Armstrong said.

The New Medicine: Returning the Human Touch to High-Tech Care, a PBS two hour documentary hosted by Dana Reeve, will go ahead and air on March 29 at 9:00 ET. Filmed months before her death, the show explores the integration of the best of high-tech medicine with a new attitude that recognizes it is essential to the healing process to treat the patient as a whole person, and not a cog in an assembly line.

According to the documentary, the practice of medicine is on the brink of transformation. As scientific findings reveal that the mind plays a critical role in the body’s capacity to heal, the healthcare community is beginning to integrate this new understanding into effective treatment with the patient. In the preview for the show, Dana Reeves is shown speaking about her belief that hope had been a positive influence on her sense of wellbeing and health, and hope is something both her and Chris, her late husband, depended on to support a positive influence for health.

Hope is a light Dana Reeve shone for each of us, by the grace, dignity and strength in how she lived her life, and in the beauty of her spirit that lives on with us.

Late Monday, Dana Reeve, who fought for better treatments and possible cures for paralysis through the Christopher Reeve Foundation, named for her late actor-husband, has died of lung cancer, the foundation said.

Reeve, when first diagnosed with lung cancer, said, "More than ever, I feel Chris with me as I face this challenge. As always, I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds with strength, courage and hope in the face of life's adversities."

Reeve is one of the cases of lung cancer diagnosis in people who never smoked. Doctors say of lung cancer diagnosis made, 10 to 20 percent of lung cancer patients never smoked.

"On behalf of the entire Board of Directors and staff of the Christopher Reeve Foundation, we are extremely saddened by the death of Dana Reeve. Dana will always be remembered for her passion, strength and ceaseless courage that became her hallmark," said Kathy Lewis, President and CEO of the foundation. "Along with her husband, Christopher, she faced adversity with grace and determination, bringing hope to millions around the world."

Survived by her son Will, 13, and two grown stepchildren, Matthew and Alexandra, Dana Reeve was 44.