Peaches geldof dead

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Just been on Bbc news

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9652813/Peaches-Geldof-opens-up-about-her-difficult-childhood.html

On the birth of her son, astala and her childhood:

"The second I held him it was like this missing piece of my life being put into place; everything started to heal."

She added: "The very worst thing that happened to me started with my parents’ divorce, it really affected the rest of my life.

"Even if it’s an archaic idea I want Astala to have a mummy and daddy together for ever. It’s a commitment. I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person."

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The coroner ruled his death as suicide.

The rock god conspiracy theorists however believe that it wasn't.

I'd believe the coroner.

Wow, very very sad news. Often I find myself rolling my eyes a bit when people say they are in tears at the death of a famous person they didn't know but Bob Geldof's statement did make me well up. What a beautiful and heartbreaking tribute to a stunning young woman.

Her children will be fine, they won't even remember her. It's her father I can't stop thinking about, as well as her husband and sisters. They must be in so much pain. Too much loss in one family.

Caruthers your earlier post didn't read as if you were looking at it that way. However, let's leave it now as this is a thread about Peaches.

Oh. :( I never knew anything about her until I started on here, but when I did I really liked her.

How heartbreaking for her family. How unfair. Her boys are just babies.

LyingWitch - I can't speak for everyone but in my case all I know of Peaches is that she was a devoted mother so yes, I guess in my mind she was defined by parenthood.

I have shed a few tears this evening, not because I'm "obsessed by owning the family grief" but because a young lady has lost her life and because she has left behind 2 tiny boys who will no doubt be pining for her.

Perhaps it is me being self-centred but I can't help put myself in her shoes and my children in theirs and begin to imagine how that must feel.

Broody, fyi anything about how she died that isn't based firmly in fact is speculation. You are adding 2 and 2 and making 5. Until cause of death is announced, anything said on the matter is speculation. Unless you're the coroner dealing with her case, or a member of her family. Are you? Thought not.

Fucking knew a row would erupt on here with someone not liking what someone else said and feeling, somehow, for some unfathomable reason, narked by it. Just stop yeah. Just for gods sake stop the narking. just let people be, go have a pissing contest somewhere else. it is not anyone's place to determine how other people react to such a sad event.

I think every parent is having a similar feeling that if it was their own family, their own child. she is only 25. my eldest is 21.....not even started their life. it isn't wrong for people to feel grief for those they don't even know. it is part of being human, it isn't trying to own someone elses grief.

Hi there, once again can we ask for people to refrain from speculating about this young woman's death, at least until such times as we have one iota of solid information.

just let people be, go have a pissing contest somewhere else. it is not anyone's place to determine how other people react to such a sad event.

Yes. This. This is a really sad thing. A tragic thing. However it's defined or for whatever reason.

I totally agree with lola - people can be sad or feel whatever for load of different reasons without the thread degenerating into some kind of undignified bun fight about who is more "sad" or "right"

Thank you Helen.

Squtter (I so want to type Butter Nut Squash)... Yes, that's fair enough. It's idle musing on my part really... she was only 25 and it seems as if the focus is on her as a mother rather than her as a young woman. It's very sad for her family and, even though I didn't know her or know much of her, my stomach flipped over when I heard. Terribly, terribly sad for her family.

I am grieving for those boys because it is my greatest fear to not be around for my son growing up. The thought of him mummy less sends me cold, as does the thought of Peaches' little boys.

Just because that is at the forefront of my mind currently does not mean I have no sympathy for the rest of her family.

She had Astala 5 days before I had my DD and Phaedra 3 weeks after I had DS. She was 2 years younger than me. This feels very close to home right now hence perhaps my disproportionate upset.

Peaches was very public about how she felt about growing up without a mother and in turn being one, which for me makes it all the more tragic that the cycle has repeated itself. I hope she is in her mums arms and feeling no pain as we speak.

I like to think that all the children who have been taken too soon (my daughter among them) get some mummy love up in heaven from those who have had to leave their babies behind. Just until we can all be reunited.

And knowing how my DS howls for me and only me when he wakes up scared or upset in the middle of the night, yes it is breaking my heart just a bit thinking of those two wee boys doing the same thing but never been able to find comfort in their mummy's arms again.

I am very sad tonight for all Peaches's family. I am glad that Katie Hopkins has refrained from saying anything as yet!

This news has really upset me. Those poor babies, and her husband and father. Absolutely tragic.

"Her children will be fine, they won't even remember her."

Oh they will, will they? Did you whip out your crystal ball for that statement? My best friend's whole life has been shaped by growing up without the mother she knows loved her but can't remember. That's a really cold, dismissive thing to say, and people have every right to feel sad those boys have lost their mum.

slithy I keep having the same incredibly heart-breaking thought.

Bob Geldof's mum died when he was 7 I think. It affected him. And now a third generation of his family has the same thing happen.

I feel for all of them. She had grown into a beautiful young woman. A mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister and a friend.

Please don't bitch and fight and speculate.

Lying,

You can be sad for her sons without thinking that being a mother is the only thing that defines her. Of course it is sad that she has died so young. People are just saying that they are sad for those who have been left behind. Her children will grow up without their mother. That is very sad too.

This is so awful, I am so sorry for the family. She did seem very slim in recent weeks and not looking well. What ever happened it is very tragic.

*"Her children will be fine, they won't even remember her."

Oh they will, will they? Did you whip out your crystal ball for that statement? My best friend's whole life has been shaped by growing up without the mother she knows loved her but can't remember. That's a really cold, dismissive thing to say, and people have every right to feel sad those boys have lost their mum. sad*

Okay, sorry, I didn't mean to sound dismissive. But the agony of a parent or sibling losing their child or sibling catches at my heart a thousand times more strongly that that of a child too young to know what's happened. I was just surprised to see such focus on the babies I suppose. I was young when my father died and, although I was obviously devastated, it was the pain in my grandfather's eyes and the way he seemed to age into an old, vulnerable man overnight that still brings the tears to my eyes far more quickly than my own loss does. Children will lose their parents, parents should never lose their children.