text: Nathaniel Marston UPDATE: November 11, 2015 - Dear family and friends, it is with a heavy heart that I share this devastating news. My beloved and cherished son, Nathaniel Marston, who was putting up the good fight until last night was not able to continue due to the traumatic and devastating nature of his injuries. Nathaniel passed away peacefully as I held him in my arms. Father William, myself and his second Mommy Lisa, and our dear friend Charlotte were by his bedside, he was not alone. His injuries, which Dr.’s did their best to heal were not responding to treatment and one after another his bodily functions failed to support his life. 
   
   Had Nathaniel lived he would have required a ventilator and would never have been able to utter one more word and would have been sentenced to life as a quadriplegic. A condition that Nate would have never have been able to tolerate. By Gods love and mercy Nathaniel was spared this living hell and has traveled on to be with God, his cherished Grandmother Mary Jackson, Grandfather John Jackson and my sister his Aunt Nora…. God is merciful and because of his mercy God ended Nathaniel’s pain and suffering at 3:15 today PST in Reno, NV. Nathaniel now lives with Father God, surrounded with peace, love and light. 
   
   Know that I am deeply grateful for all of you for taking this tragic two week journey with me Nathaniel and our family. Your unfailing support, prayers, love and positive thoughts that you have sent our way, in what has been the worst two weeks of my life, have held all of us up giving us the strength to get through each hellish day. 
   
   Arrangements will be made for a memorial service in New York City, NY, Kauai, HI and Gerlach, NV. As soon as dates for these services are known they will be posted. Again, thank you for your prayers, your love, your kindness and your friendship which has allowed me and my family to be strong enough to be by my son's side for these past 12 days. The outpouring of your love came as an unexpected gift and I don't know how I will repay you for all of your love, prayers and support. Thank you for sharing your love, your experiences with me about how my treasured child, a man who grew into an individual who touched more lives than I ever could have known. XOXOXOXOXOOX ||||| Nathaniel Marston, former star of One Life to Live, appears to be fighting for his life following a horrific car accident. 
   
   The 40-year-old soap star's mother, Elizabeth Jackson, has been posting updates of her son's condition to her Facebook page. Jackson wrote in her initial post on Saturday, "Please pray for my son Nathaniel Marston.. He was in a car accident last night and is in the intensive care on life support. Back and neck broken in several places.Other internal injuries.Please pray that he will recover and walk again." 
   
   The Nevada Highway Patrol confirms to ET they responded to a single vehicle collusion on Oct. 30, at 9:10 p.m. According to a preliminary crash investigation, Marston was traveling southbound on SR447 in a blue 1985 Ford F-150 pickup, "when he allowed the truck to drift across the northbound travel lane and enter the east dirt shoulder. The vehicle then rotated and overturned multiple times. The vehicle came to rest on the west side of SR447 on its wheels facing west. Marston was not wearing his seatbelt and was ejected from the vehicle during the course of the crash." 
   
   His mother later wrote in another Facebook update that police told her Marston was sober at the time of the accident, and had sustained a broken and fractured neck, broken shoulder, broken ribs, and a collapsed lung. "Please pray for him," she wrote. 
   
   The upsetting news continued early into Sunday morning, when Jackson shared what Marston's doctor allegedly told her. "In all likelihood, if he lives, he will be paralyzed from the neck down and will not breathe without a ventilator machine," she relayed. 
   
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   "Oh my God please give me strength," Jackson wrote. 
   
   On Monday, however, Jackson said that Marston was able to communicate, and "is not going to give up without a fight." 
   
   "He is going into surgery at 3:00 this afternoon. The goal is to get him breathing on his own," she said in her latest update. "The doctor said that there is a good chance that he will recover the use of upper body movement and a slim chance that he will walk again." 
   
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   "Recovery will take two or more years but, where there is life there is hope. Nate has never walked away from a fight and he is determined to win this one," Jackson said. 
   
   Marston appeared starred as Michael McBain on One Life to Live, which is no longer on the air, from 2001-07. ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.
target: – One Life to Live fans are waking up to devastating news Thursday morning: Nathaniel Marston, the star who played Michael McBain on the long-running ABC soap opera, has died at the age of 40, People reports. Mom Elizabeth Jackson posted a heartfelt tribute to her son on Facebook Wednesday evening, informing readers that "my beloved and cherished son, Nathaniel Marston, who was putting up the good fight until last night was not able to continue due to the traumatic and devastating nature of his injuries. Nathaniel passed away peacefully as I held him in my arms." Jackson also noted doctors had done the best they could to save her son after the Oct. 30 car crash near Reno, Nev., that threw him from the car. "Had Nathaniel lived he would have required a ventilator and would never have been able to utter one more word and would have been sentenced to life as a quadriplegic. A condition that Nate would have never have been able to tolerate," she wrote. "By Gods [sic] love and mercy Nathaniel was spared this living hell and has traveled on to be with God." Jackson noted that memorial services would be held in NYC, Hawaii, and Nevada.