Jade Goody - this coverage is now making me really uncomfortable

as i have said before if jade had spent a little less time playing stupid, she would have sorted out a decent life insurance policy a long time ago she cold certainly afford it and i cannot get past the fact all these poeple are diefying someone who was a bullying racist as seen by millions.
And yes i am sure that this coverage has rised awareness of cancer and having smears but i am afraid I dont think JG gave a flying one about that, it was just a happy coincidence Max Clifford made the most of.
 
What a heartless lot people are on here! I'm shocked reading these posts (and disgusted by towerhamlets in the other thread!) 'We' the British public are responsible for making Jade famous in the first place and that was how she made her living; that was the way she provided for her family - living in the public eye.

Yes we may not agree with the way she publicised her life and death, but how many of us know how we would act put in similar circumstances? I too would want to provide for my family in any way I could - her poor boys who are only 4 and 5 have no mother, no amount of money will change that but at least it will make life easier and give them a start in life that she didn't have. Surely they will be proud of this??

We have no knowledge whether she has life insurance or not, hopefully her advisers would have sorted this for her. But do not criticise someone for thinking that at 26/27 they may not need this. Nor for living in denial when having abnormal smears - how many people hope that if they don't face a serious issue it will just go away??? She went to India to try to put right her past mistakes and in doing so may have paid the highest price.

RIP Jade, My heart goes out to your boys x
 
I dont think we are heartless on here just bloody honest and not being sucked in by a wave of mass hysteria. we are as sorry for her kids as we are for natasha richardsons and any children that lose parents, but as far as i am concerned i didnt know her personally and what i had seen of her (mostly on the news, i dont watch BB as a rule, made her look like a racist bully. I am damn sure she publically apologised afterwards but i am unable to feel anything for her except a wish that this media frenzy would be over.
as for your other points, the supposedly 'stupid' person was bright enough to make herself a fortune, understand her media appeal and get every last cent out of it. Forgive me if i am unable to be a hypocrite on news of her death. There are many other people much more deserving of my sympathy and thoughts, Rosie for example.
 
Hi Woeisme + all other friends,

Yes, i think Gordon Brown is acting a little inappropriately with regard to Jade. Without detracting from her message about cervical cancer, which i sincerely hope will trigger even the likes of me to get checked...
I do think that the UK Prime Minister should stop trying to distract attention from the dire financial state that we are in, as a result of his being Chancellor, + subsequently PM.

I also wonder how the families of our dear soldiers killed as a result of political things feel..... (ie Jade's got so much attention).

Well, onwards + upwards, + ignoring politicians, i've sponsored our local's bar lady for the Race for Life, which is a ladies' thing for cancer, and i'm going to do it myself also! It's only 5 km, can be done at any speed, so i intend running it! (Allegedly) Come on, do it! (Sorry, don't have web address to hand, but google RaceForLife)

With love to Jade, her family, and to all those who've suffered from cancer, or war. They seem to be similar, somehow. BS x

PS: I don't have a clue who Natasha is, either! Very sad, though, beginner skier must be very similar to beginner rider, thoughts are with family after freak, tragic accident, BS x
 
Thank you Brandsnap, that sums up what I've been feeling. It's not about being unsympathetic to Jade Goody, and I certainly haven't condemned her for how she conducted herself.
I think some people are confusing the sentiment attached to the sad story of this woman dying, with the wider issues that some are trying to discuss. Understandable in the circumstances.
 
This young woman had a horrible abusive childhood. Don't supose she went to school much at all, it certainly doesnt sound like she had a happy suportative family, and quite honestly she had to bring herself up,If sometimes she was a bit mouthy and had some dodgy values who can blame her. She was exploited (willingly maybe, but exploited none the less) by people who saw her vulnerability and weaknesses and made them public entertainment.If she and her family gained anything from it all, good luck to them I say. She faced her death (AT 27 YEARS) with great courage. No self pity. Just making the very most of what was left.Admirable in my book. She wasts her children to go to private school so that they don't (in HER words) grow up as thick as me!She showed some insight. I don't think she was thick, just poorly educated and she wanted better for her boys. I was state educated as was my first generation Indian husband but his son (my stepson) went to a private school and had no problems there at all. He recently graduated from SOAS and is now at LSE.
 
I really don't understand how the posters on this thread have made the conclusions they have, about a person they have never met.

The wider issues, what does that mean. She lived in the public eye and she died in the public eye. Celebrities, whether they are liked or disliked are put there by the public!!!!!!!!!!

A 27 year old woman has just died of an illness that needs shouting about from the highest point in the loudest voice possible, it is a silent killer, and she did that. I am 11 weeks post op after having a full hysterectomy due to cervical cancer, I had my FIRST EVER smear because of her story and publicity, she literally saved my life and for that not only I, but my family will be eternally grateful.

I know what she was going through and if I had found myself in her position with a terminal diagnosis, I would have done everything I possibly could to make sure my 4 children were provided for, regardless of any and all public opinion.

She has left behind 2 beautiful little boys. Jade was put in the public eye, because the public wanted her there. She certainly did not do it on her own. Her lack of education, was something she was fully aware of and so in the final weeks of her life she made sure that her sons would NEVER be in the position that she had found herself. They will have the best education that she could possibly provide for them in her absence. A dying mothers wish that her children are taken care of, she made her sacrifices. The pain she must have gone through during her last few weeks, must have been excruciating, yet she kept smiling. How many of you out there, would keep smiling, knowing that in the next few weeks you would be taken away from your loved ones.

She even highlighted the racist issues, all be it from the wrong side of the fence, she realised her mistakes and went over to India to try and amend, put right, what she had done. The Indian community really took to her, they forgave her for her heat of the moment outbursts, does that make them better people than those who didn't, I think so.

Those of you who are without sin, can cast the first stone, the rest of us will try in our lifetimes to make right our wrongs so we meet our maker with a clean heart and pure soul.

RIP Jade and thank you X
 
I am amazed at some of the posts in this thread! So what if you did not like her or what she did with parts of her life? She did an incredibly valuable thing with the last months of her life and did what most mothers would do. The opportunity was open to her that may not be open to all, to make money by media, but it was and she took it.

As some of you have said, she was not overly intelligent educationally, that does not make someone a stupid person. She had a great deal of business savvy and where she lacked it she employed people to make up for that gap in her knowledge. She did not have a good education, she had a crummy early life and she struggled hard to make sure her boys do not suffer the same fate. How wonderful for all of the well educated people on here to be able to condemn her with the eloquence that they are fortunate to have, she did not have the same blessing.

Yes she made mistakes, she had poor parenting in her childhood and said the wrong things. She learnt a lot from her racism row and worked hard to make up for what she had done. Ultimately she was only 27 - you may all say "well, I was doing this or that when I was 27" Children who have poor backgrounds grow up in adulthood much later than those who have strong and supportive parents - so do not villify her for that either. And as for life insurance, she may well have had life insurance, but seriously, do any of you consider that you will die at the age of 27?

Perhaps those who do not have anything positive to say, could just find it in themselves to say nothing at all at this point.
 
What ever way you view all the publicity, pro or con (I'll keep mine to myself), at the end of the day if the public didn't want to know then the circus wouldn't happen.
For me the whole episode is more damining of the great british public than Jade.

A sad reflection of todays society that is so caught up in the death of a young woman.
 
I do feel very sorry for Jade and her family it's a terrible thing to come to terms with especially at such a young age.

My father died just before Xmas of cancer, it was 2 months from diagnosis to death, one day he was working on a roof the next taken ill and his life stopped, just like that. He suffered terribly in those two months, without the care and medical treatment which Jade had.....this is what I find very difficult to accept, my Dad was treated very badly he received none of the treatment Jade had, he was shoved in a corner of the ward and left to get on with his suffering with just pain relief, no matter how much I pleaded with the hospital over his treatment etc.........nothing changed, sorry it's cut-backs was the reply. It is very easy for others to say , you should have done this and you should have done that, I have been one of those people in the past, but when I was in the situation myself there was nothing that could change a thing, so unless you are able to pay huge amounts on money you do not get the best of care or treatment and it's very very hard to accept this when you seen others getting the best of everything when it comes to health care.
 
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