Well I am but is it just me or is this verging on just wanting more publicity?

[mamadiva]

In one of the daily rags today it stated that Jade Goody has made a photo album with letters and things in to help her sons remember the best times, then it says it's going to be released publically to raise money for cancer charities.

Now I know that is a good thing blah de blah but surely the fact that it was for her sons to remember her by and that there are letters directly written for them surely it should be the one thing that should be kept private for them to cherish?

At the end of the day there is a book coming out and her clothes are being auctioned to raise money so surely this one little thing could be the boys memories and not the publics.

I know I am being unreasonable because it has nothing at all to do with me but those poor boys deserve some sort of privacy to remember their mum.

oh look another Jade thread. Nice.

Mamadiva - you can be sure as sure that Jade Goody's wishes are being respected! She didn't value her privacy, she valued the money she was raising. Fair enough.

I admire Jade for what she did I am in no way slating her I just think that this one little thing should have been for her boys and not for money.

mamadiva - some people want their privacy and some don't. Jade Goody didn't care remotely for her privacy - fine.

i agree with you mamadiva. problem is once you get into this whole "sell your life" treadmill it is hard to get off it. so sad.

Yawn.

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True I guess.

I suppose it just came into my head if it was my mum I'd be gutted thinking she'd done this special thing for me... and then sold it to half the British population.

I'm not on about Jade's privacy though that's up to her it's her boys I'm meaning.

Jade Goody will be forgotten very soon. Think of Princess Diana - she is hardly ever talked about these days, and she was a member of the Royal Family.

There is every chance that Jade Goody's boys grow up entirely out of the limelight, and Jade Goody knew it and wanted to milk her last chance to make money so that her sons could have a good education. Good for her.

As I said I totally agre and admire what she did in the end but it's this one little thing that's bothering me not everything else given half the chance I'd do the same but the memory book no chance.

"Jade Goody's wishes are being respected" at the expense of her children.

Look the woman is dead. I think it's time we moved past this "respect her wishes" bollocks and started considering that there are two young children whose only memories of their mother have been on sale.

Who the fuck is going to buy a photo album of Jade with personal letters to her children? I find the thought that people will buy such personal things quite abhorrent actually.

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is jade dead?

wannaBe - you know, people make wills and they have to be respected! You may disagree with the contents of Jade Goody's will, but that doesn't mean it isn't protected by the law of England.

Sorry but LOL at Ronaldinhio am assuming and quietly hoping you are being sarcy as to the amount of threads on MN.

Anna no one is debating the will are they?

Would this be in her will?

is it part of her will though?

She made enough money while she was alive, why couldn't she just have given some of that to cancer research? I'm sure "her boys" wouldn't have missed a little bit of the £4 million she left?

Why would it not be in her will?

All the money raised from the book is going to Marie Curie and will be released next Monday.

Yes it's for a good cause but so is the new biography that's been or being released soon and the clothes auction they are having is benefitting Cancer Research so why the need for a memory book on sale that's the bit I don't understand.

You don't need to understand. That's what Jade Goody instructed (we can presume) in her will. That is her business and no-one else's!

I know nothing of wills, I thought it was all I want to leave this money to my boys and this property to my boys.

Not I want to leave my boys memories to the people of Britain

Gosh, you can make much more explicit instructions in your will than merely leaving your assets to other people to do what they want with!

I don't get the disapproval about this - selling the album won't stop the boys from having it. Keeping it private won't give it any magical qualities it wouldn't otherwise have had.
You may feel you would not want to make those things public if it was you, but it seems to me that it's an entirely subjective and personal decision.

Okay look I am not going to argue over a dead womans will, as I said I just find it rather innapropriate for her boys ,not Jade, her boys.

I know it has nothing to do with me I already said that but I cant help my opinion.

doesn't sound as if this was left in her will.

here

And from the sound of the artacle the album also contains pictures of her children.

And these are for sale as well?

not on IMO.

Sell yourself by all means, but your children? Totally wrong.

It's more the letters that bother me Kathy surely that is something the boys should have to keep to themselves and share the contents with those they want to if they choose but as it stands the public will know what she had to say to her boys in her last weeks before the boys will.