Comment on Zoe's comment on Claire's blog

Ok, I don't know if I'm allowed to do this, but I'm doing it anyway.

- The whole Jade Goody fiasco is terrible, a woman gets diagnosed with cancer, she's given a prognosis, the prognosis rings true and she leaves her family, friends and kids behind. Terrible situation, don't get me wrong - it truly is awful. Probably one of the worst things that you can imagine, as a parent, leaving your kids behind, and as a kid watching your parents go.

Guess what? - - She isn't the first woman in the world to get that type of cancer, she isn't the first woman in the world to die of an early age and she isn't the going to be the last. Is it really right that the whole nation should apparently mourn so much over the fact that a "celebrity" contracted cervical cancer? What about the other hundreds of people affected by it?

• "In 2005, 2,803 women in the UK were diagnosed with cervical cancer.
• Cervical cancer caused 941 deaths in the UK in 2007." - taken from Cancer Research UK

So, more to the point, why is Jade so different to the other 941 people that dies in 2007, or the other 2,800 plus people that were diagnosed witht he same illness in 2005 ? Because she has money, because so many people recognise her face? How many other mums had been diagnosed with this illness and suffered in silence with everyone else not knowing or caring how they died.

Yes, she's a celebrity and yes she's an idol for some... strange people out there i suppose and yes she said she's doing the reality shows for her kids to be able to go to college and whatever else. But there are people out there that didn't get that chance, there are people that lost their mothers and had no other parents, had to go into foster homes ETC. Why is it SO different and SO much more tragic to have stuff like this happen to a celebrity?