Comments | ron_broxted: Jade Goody and the "dignity" of dying.

ron_broxted

Jade Goody and the "dignity" of dying.

Mar 08, 2009 16:47

Except, of course, there is no "dignity" in it. It is entirely dependent on where one is. The "first world" in a nice, clean bed with crisp white sheets. In the soi-disant third world dying in your own excrement. During the Great War of 1914-18 screaming. Miss Goody wishes to sell the "rights" of her demise to provide a public school education for ( Read more... )

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Jade Goody plettan March 9 2009, 00:39:47 UTC

Hmmmmmnnnnn! As someone who will not enjoy Jade Goody's "choice", I wonder. There is no dignity in death anymore. My grandmother was the neighbourhood passage to death. I used to sit with her as she laid out and washed those who died. All those I knew and were close to, I kissed their cheeks and thanked for knowing. I was no more than 5-11 years old. Death is but a passage.

I have no TV and am not wedded to its "reality". I respect Jade Goody. Her desire to send her children to public school, I don't demean. She is going into that last goodnight with all the personal self respect as she can muster. That our "middle class" mores find her tacky in her hopes for her children tant pis!

We are all products of our "society". I have no stone to throw.

Re: Jade Goody ron_broxted March 9 2009, 10:30:23 UTC

It has all become anti-septic today.One goes off to hospital to die,complete strangers do "last offices" and then all packaged up to the crematorium or in my case grave.Aspects of Goodys demise have become "public property" not least the fact that her kids may marry into the landed gentry.Mind you,I take exception to your term "our middle class mores". I am poor and therefore working class.(!)