This is my standard answer to all Jade Goody questions.
We will all die and that is the reality of life. To use the argument that you should feel sorry for someone because they are dead is an emotionally manipulatory one. Hitler is dead, he had family. Saddam Hussein is dead he had family. Bernard Manning is dead he had family.
Your life is judged by how you lived, not by how you died. We know we all have to go one day and if you want to be remembered for being a nice or good person , you do that when you have the opportunity.
27 is not a tender age it is a fairly young age. 10 years old would be a tender age. You cannot mitigate how this lady has run her life, by how she died - as this would mean we could all behave badly and then absolve ourselves on our death beds.
She could have lived her life a lot better than she did. I was born and raised in a poor, disadvantaged area in a time much more deprived than Jade. I do ask anyone to feel sorry for me because they won't and I should therefore expect others to have the common sense and decency not to ask me to dish out sympathy to complete strangers who have not enhanced my life.
I went through the ludicrous MEDIA INSTIGATED public mourning of Princess Diana- the people's princess. I worried about her two boys and how they would cope. They seem to be fine. I simply refuse to have people tell me how to think and what I should be feeling. While Jade may have come from BIG BROTHER we are not living in a Big Brother state and if people do not wish to be melodramatic over Jade - that should be respected also.
Probably 4 people who have answered this question will die from cancer and I do not intend to mourn their passing. We all have to go sometime as this is what we all share- even if we share nothing else.
If you want to mourn fair enough, but you can not emotionally blackmail other people to join your grief. You should have enough empathy to psychologically understand we do not all think, feel and experience the same things.
Sermon over.
Many other people passed a way last night, some good, some bad and some with wasted lives. This awaits us all
Jade has not saved lives- the medical and scientific profession do this. These are the true heroes of the world's fight against cancer. If I get cancer these are the people that will look after me, give me drugs, treatment. I will thank people for the job they do. I will kiss the ground that these, scientists, doctors and nurses walk on.
Some of these invisible "cancer" workers are people THAT come from more deprived and poverty stricken homes than Goody. They work long hours, their wages are poor and as you can see the public do not even credit them with saving lives. Grieve if you must but spare the hypocrisy. The world is false enough as it is.
The logic that if you don't like Jade Goody you must automatically be a serial killing terrorist is ludicrous as it makes the assumption Jade Goody was Mother Teresa. People simply have to accept that other people do not share their feelings and views.
My mother still has the Newspapers of Diana's funeral in the loft- by the way. I also had the misfortune of buying her "CANDLE IN THE WIND" from Woolworths and there was a mile long queue for the CD.
Unless Jesus comes to earth and dies again. I refuse to mourn anyone that I don't know or care for because the MEEJAH are whipping people up into a frenzy.