Poor Jade fading fast - she looks quite beautiful......

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and do you know what

i wont have a bad word said about her

Poor girl

Shit parents and crappy childhood
YES she went in BB and acted like a fool and YES she went in BB a second ime and said some ignorant racist stuff

but she was 'ill educated' and she did not 'know better' but in her favour :

she educated herself

she learned her lesson

she apologised and meant it

I AM a fan of Jade

I like her a lot and feel much sadness at this vibrant and humour full life cut short

Her little boys were goign to have the mother she never had and i SO relate to that

so KISSES for Jade tonight and much love -sign in if you wish !

No dessention please - not on here!

It is tragic that any young mother should have to die so young that they don't see their kids grow up but this is definitely a case of the diana effect where lots of people over react to an event in teh lives of a family they know nothing about yet are unlikely to be channelling this great feeling into anything constructive.If some of the public who are so devastated by jades condition put as much into their local community/charity
/hospices etc there might be point to it all

hear hear noddyholder.

The offensive language and behaviour on this thread from people who can't cope with other people disagreeing is quite astounding! I'm apparently an insensitive moron ROFL, really adds to the quality of debate doesn't it!

I will continue to feel sympathy for anyone who dies young from an incurable disease, just as I will continue to support certain charities which fund research into treatment.

Far more useful than all this sniping.

an emotional response does not have to result in a financial response to be meaningful

i feel sad about loads of stuff i am exposed to on media.i am saddened at fatalities in Iraq.i don't necessarily pop a donation in the tin for injured servicemen welfare.but my emotional response is not diminished because i chose not to donate financially

i was directly affected by pre-eclampsia,was very ill when pg.i didn't make a donation to pre-eclampsia research

are we saying one can only have a valid and/or meaningful response to events if we donate financially.or do voluntary work etc

no we are saying what we think which i thought was the point of a discussion forum

indeed,and the point as you are at pains to point out is to hear other divergent views too.

I am intersted in everyones views but am not a pains or at least wasn't teh last time I looked

Discussion forum Noddy, yes - some seem to think its soley a shit stirring forum. There is a huge difference between voicing your disagreement and calling people morons and asking for threads you don't approve of to be officially corralled! Or voicing disagreement and then contunially putting the boot in until people take notice of you. It used to be bad form to hijack peoples threads, something that we used to apologise for. Out of politeness and respect. If you had a bug bear, you started another thread and invited people over. Was that not so?

Yes, it was Daftpunk - sorry!

Anyway Thumbwitch, it's my recollection that Diamond wasn't a regular smoker at all before he got cancer. I seem to remember him (or his doctor) saying that starting smoking after being diagnosed with terminal cancer was probably a good idea, if it helped you relax.

Or if not a good idea, it was as good a time as any to start smoking regulalry. Makes sense.

As far as the publicty thing goes, I assume that had she not been so public she would still have been hounded at every opportunity by the press. Going public may not have just been an attempt to make money but also to accept the inevitable - i.e being followed and papped. At least this way she has some kind of control and I imagine feeling in control when your life has gone tits up is better than nothing.

I am curious how this thread turned out to have opposing sides...
You either have compassion and sympathy for this woman and her situation and you post a comment or you don't and therefore you don't post. Is it neccessary to tell anyone that you don't care? Isn't that a little strange and attention seeking?
Anyway thanks to this brave young lady and her publicity the cervical smear rate has been raised significantly.

Before Jade was diagnosed, the total number of pages viewed on cancer uk cervical cancer section was around 2,000 to 3,000. On the day of the news last year this jumped to over 32,000.

Since then the daily visits have continued to be around two to three times higher than before her diagnosis was made public.

Haven't heard many people saying they don't care tbh. A lot of people have said it doesn't affect them on a personal level, but I would have thought most people apart from the most hard hearted would actually not care, in the sense that it's sad for anyone to die leaving young children.

sorry that wasn't very clear.. to clarify- only the very hard hearted would not care at all about someone dying. But very many people don't feel personally involved in this event.

interesting Scottish Mummy

I think John Diamond was a smoker before diagnosis iirc

VH; why do you keep coming back?...you've made your point...read divineinterventions post.

daftpunk - a polite request to try not to be so controlling. This is a public forum for discussion, and people can post if they choose.

I was replying to the post which suggested that loads of people were posting and saying they 'don't care' that Jade Goody has a terminal illness. I haven't read any posts that say that.

"In fact, why post at all?"

your words VioletHill, your words!

nice try mitoEve - but he wasn't terminal to begin with, hence trying the CAM treatments.
And according to this report, he was a smoker for years:
"He decided he had to confront the enemy and asked to see his tumour. It is a dark hard lump with a white, oily centre - the result of years of smoking."

I haven't read Jade's wedding edition of OK magazine - does anyone know if they made any donation to a cancer charity - a percentage from the sales for instance? It must have sold a fair few. Or would they have just wanted to use the money to recoup the £700,000 they paid for the exclusive rights to the ceremony??

the charity was jade's children

To all the posters who are fed up of reading about Jade in the press, well for some of us it is a daily living nightmare that we can't choose whether to read about it or not because we have to confront it.

My dp has recently been diagnosed with cancer, at the same time they discovered secondaries so it is terminal. We have 3 children and I have a sd.

Cancer is such a taboo word that people whisper about behind your back or don't know what to say - Jade has confronted all of that and good on her. If it makes people more aware and in her case makes people go for screening so much the better.

The one thing my dp is so concerned about is our financial affairs - he is not in the public eye but if he were I am sure he would continue working if it meant he left us secure.

For those of you don't care about Jade or are sick of it, I pray to god you never have to live through what we are.

Even though she is not close to any of us, I fail to see how anyone could not have empathy with her and her family. My children are going to have to face what her children are now facing.

Thumbwitch: interesting opinion on John Diamond's Snake Oil, which is a book I rather admired, for it's putting the boot in to the assorted loonies and charlatans who prey on the dying.
Actually it's kind of interesting that there haven't been many loonies or charlatans jumping on Jade's bandwagon (or maybe the ones who did weren't prepared to bung Max CLifford enough of a percentage) to suggest that their brand of snake oil might help her.

Also, 2shoes: re commenting unnecessarily on threads. Basically I would reckon that anything in Chat, AIBU or In The News is fair game for any kind of opinion. Popping onto Style and Fashion to go 'How can you care about clothes you frivolous bitches, what about the straving millions' would be a bit pointless, same as going into Potty Training just to say 'Well my kids are all 25 now' would be essentially pointless.

pinot i am very sorry for yours and your family's situation

I agree with you that if I were faced with the same - securing my families financial future would be so important

jade is only trying to do the best for her family

pinot, sorry to hear about what you and your family are facing.