Jade Goody has passed away

[The_gas]

Some of the posts in this thread are incredible.

 

[Ste]

Which ones?

 

[Cricketdude]

Which ones?

All mine.

 

[Sureshot]

Some of the posts in this thread are incredible.

Isn't it just, some people have very poor understandings of the importance of life and how little other stuff means. It's disheartening.

 

[Dr. Pepper]

All mine.

I don't understand how you can joke in a thread about cancer.

 

[Cricketdude]

I don't understand how you can joke in a thread about cancer.

I didn't understand it either. But it happened. Just shows my awesomeness.

 

[madmusician]

The way I see it is that it is terrible that she has got terminal cancer, the same way that it is terrible for anybody on the planet to get terminal cancer. However, I don't think that she should be treated any differently to anybody else with terminal cancer. What has she done to get famous? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't she just appear on Big Brother and then returned when her "career" was going down the pan in 2007 which is when the racism saga occurred. (And, just for the record, I believe that what she said was down to ignorance rather than hatred for another race.) She has done no more in her life than anybody else to justify the coverage that her particular case of cancer is getting.

I completely understand that this is not her fault, instead the fault of the tabloid newspapers and magazines, but that doesn't stop me thinking that the coverage is quite unjustified. Yes, she is getting money for her children to grow up on, but there are many of these magazines jumping on the celebrity bandwagon and I view the coverage as distasteful. When she does die, then why will the newspapers, magazines and television channels cover the story as if it is more important than anybody else dying from cancer?

Cancer is a terrible illness and I really do feel sorry for her, but she should suffer in private, just like the majority of those with cancer do. That would certainly be better for her dignity in her final months and, I would argue, for our population, to stop looking at Jade Goody as if she is some attraction for us all to view. Give her some privacy.

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[King Cricket]

Now it's just a matter of hours before we'll say that three letter abbreviation starting with "R" to Jade. I really feel for her. Poor lady. I think every Indian has forgiven her now.

Jade Goody slipping away, 'got only hours left'- ET Cetera-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times

 

[DPRA]

Right, Im going to have a rant about this now, so here goes.

Im getting seriously p***** off with seeing her everywhere in the news now! This is for a number of reasons:

1) She isn't the first person to get cancer, and neither will she be the last.

2) Anyone else that has cancer isn't getting god knows how much money
from papers, TV Channels and other money offering services. I lost a family member from cancer, why didn't he get money off all these magazines for a few pictures of him and a story?!

3) She got her wedding for Free from donated things, why dont people donate things to everyone else that is dying from cancer?!

4) There are people out there that have cancer who are still working hard to give the kids the most amout of money possible for when he/she passes away, but her kids are going to be fine with the money that she has and is getting even taking her last few breaths.

5) Just last year everyone was branding her a 'racist' and she didn't deserve to live, but now she is dying people are offering there thoughts to her, did you not remember she was racist last year and everyone wanted her head?!

It seriously P***** me off, and to be honest, I couldnt care about her at all. She is a no one in my eyes.

 

[barmyarmy]

On a positive to come out of this the number of women getting themselves screened for cancer has jumped significantly.

 

[Will_NA]

5) Just last year everyone was branding her a 'racist' and she didn't deserve to live, but now she is dying people are offering there thoughts to her, did you not remember she was racist last year and everyone wanted her head?!

That's what baffled me. The papers are indicative of this sudden change in attitude. Last year, she was a vile bigot, now she's an icon.

ITV even aired a documentary: The Legend of Jade. What has she done?

 

[Skater]

Her legacy will be raising awareness of cancer and being a catalyst in the screening age for cervical cancer lowered from 25 to 20 years. The latter is under government review, but it is hard to see how they could not change it after the media coverage Goody has received.

 

[DPRA]

That's what baffled me. The papers are indicative of this sudden change in attitude. Last year, she was a vile bigot, now she's an icon.

ITV even aired a documentary: The Legend of Jade. What has she done?

She has dont nothing, thats the answer to your last question...

To me she is just a Racist pig who I couldn't care less about.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

She has dont nothing, thats the answer to your last question...

To me she is just a Racist pig who I couldn't care less about.

She is dying, she even can't see now. Have some mercy on her. She will not even live till tuesday hardly Monday evening. She has two kids.... I know, you will say many people are there like her, its true but we don't know many of them. We know Goody because she has been highlighted. When she made racist remarks we all were against her and absued her but now she is dying, so we should all stand beside her.

 

[Skater]

She has dont nothing, thats the answer to your last question...

To me she is just a Racist pig who I couldn't care less about.

So did you not read my post? Lives will be saved because of the media circus she has had. I know it has been annoying, but it will save lives.