why???

[stokemaveric]

is jade goody getting married?....money wouldnt be the motivation would it???

[cazzz1975]

there is a world of difference between the dying person cracking a joke and an onlooker making fun of their situation.

[ELVIS68]

well said cazz

[Gormless]

Not one person on this thread knows what it is like to be dying, to be told "you have 9 months to live, top whack".

It'll be your turn one day. Try a little compassion?

[Schutzengel]

The latest news from the hospital, (on the news tonight), is that Jade has about 2 months left to live. For heavens sake the girl is only 27 years old with two small children. She decided to go public about her treatment, knowing that the cancer was terminal and spreading rapidly, as a warning to other young women not to be complacent about getting tested, and also as a way to build up a fund of money for her children after she had gone. Whatever Jade did, or was, is now in the past, and it would be a very hard-hearted person who would criticise her for doing all she could to protect her children's future, in the short time she has left.

[fredpuli47]

Why not employ Max Clifford? He'll get a lot bigger sum for her, to help her and her children, than she'd ever get on her own.

The dread words 'double standards' apply. When a well-known, serious journalist was dying of a terminal condition he wrote a very moving diary, turned into a book.This was serialised in a 'heavy' paper.Nobody made a fuss about that., a highly -educated, literate, middle- class person who, no doubt, had an agent.When Jade Goody does what she knows, to the same end, we get a lot of verbal flak flying about .

[jno]

yes, it seems that is the reason.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2009/feb /15/jade-goody-cancer

If using her celebrity is the only way she's got of providing for her children's future, wouldn't you do the same under similar circumstances?

Good point, fredpuli. In fact two or three journalists have done it.... John Diamond, Ruth Picardie come to mind.

[missprim]

I didn't know until I read the above link that her husband to be is only 21 yrs old. It seems very young to me to be responsible for another persons children and I do hope that this man doesn't make money for himself out of this sad story.

[tigerlily11]

I'm not nuts about the woman but I think she is making a bad choice here.
This man will hang around as long as it takes him to inherit what he thinks he should have and anything he can get selling his sob story to the papers, then he will do the off and not give a stuff for those kids.
He isn't trustworthy in the least.

[fredpuli47]

tigerlily, that's always a risk. With any luck her advisers will have set up the trust for her children so that he isn't the sole trustee (or even that he's not a trustee at all) of the money, income and property which is for them.That's because there are obvious hazards in leaving a young man, with no knowledge of business or finance or dealing with large sums or tax, in charge of the trust.They've probably been equally circumspect in the naming of executors. What the man does with money received by him, for him, absolutely under the will is up to him but the children have to be 100 % protected as to anything ultimately intended for them and their benefit..

[lizzydrippin]

I believe in Jack Tweeds intentions with regards to marrying Jade are sincere, they've been together for a few years and I think he just wants to do anything he can do to give her abit of happiness before she dies. Jack Tweed comes from a 'well off' family himself so I can't see him being interested in any money and lastly even though Im sure he will play a part in her 2 boy's lives as will their grandmother Jackiey, but apparently they will be raised by their biological father Jeff Brazier who has been part of their lives since birth.

[LucyThomas5]

The woman cannot even die with dignity. She even has to ensure that her impending demise is slapped all over the tabloids.