Did anyone else cheer upon hearing the news of Jade Goody's timely dismissal?

Who is this person, and why do they matter? Even though I play the Dead Pool on a regular basis, I never cheer the passing of anyone. Except once, just a little cheer.

I had no idea who this person was until I looked her up on Wikipedia. She didn’t sound like too bad of a person to me but then again, I never saw her in action in real life or on any of the shows she was on. She only had the chance to live 27 years of her life before she died and I think that’s sad, really. And I’m like @AlfredaPrufrock, above, in that I am uncomfortable cheering the death of someone. That just seems wrong to me.

She basically got famous for being a dumb shit, then she was in the papers everyday for 6 months for having cancer, huge tributes made for her in magazines, she openly declared she was milking the press for her kids future, that’s nice but don’t complain when half the nation complain about your slow death. She got more coverage than Princess Diana in the UK and that is no exaggeration.

Don’t think I have seen the dismissal in referring to a death before. Plenty of usable words, but dismissal isn’t one of them. sorry about…..ole whats her name….......

Are you seriously putting out there that you’re happy someone died? And the explanation you gave above about who this person was? Looks shallow, envious, and sad. Move on.

Kinda poetic/ironic/hilarious that she died on mothers day at 3am just after the papers went to print.

@Bluefreedom, I was not exactly unhappy about Charlton Heston’s passing. Not happy either, but I found his role in the NRA to be extreme, and a barrier to moderate, common sense.

@trickface, the way to deal with those type of people is to never mention their name, read about them, watch them on television. You can only be famous if people notice you. The fact that you would post this question indicates that you drank the kool-aid on this one. Negative publicity is still publicity.

So she finally died, then. Well.

No, I did not and would not cheer the passing of anyone. It’s a horrible thing to do.

I know nothing of this person except what I have seen in online news reports, but I can honestly say I do not cheer her death. That sounds pretty creepy to me.

She never killed anyone;
I can’t see where she committed any crime other that publicity seeking;
She was not a criminal;
She only lived 27 years;
It appears she has young children – who are now motherless.

I know nothing about her other than what I found on the internet; but if you’re cheering the death of someone because she was a publicity seeker…you need some perspective.

I don’t know that I ever found cheer in anyone’s death. That’s sort of disgusting. Indifferent, I can understand. Being glad someone doesn’t have to suffer anymore, that makes sense. But being filled with cheer? That’s messed up.

The only persons death that I was relieved about (no cheering) was Saddam Hussein’s. And that was because I felt he was an evil man. I can never imagine cheering anyone’s death especically if their wrongdoing was only to be annoying to certain people.

@Cardinal I have never heard of dismissal used this way either. I thought it was someone fired from AIG before I googled her.

i am still having a party right now started the second i found out and don’t think it will stop

For those that are cheering, what is it about this woman that grated on you so?

BBC news today (among many others):

.. many….. have praised Jade for her courage, saying her actions will have saved many lives.
Cancer screening experts are reporting a massive surge in the number of young women coming forward for screening – some for their very first test.”

@trickface and @sandystrachan: That news^^ is worth cheering and celebrating. What have you two done recently to help others? Volunteered at Habitat, helped raise a barn, planted a vegetable garden, taught ESL, mowed the lawn of a senior citizen? “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone,”

@trickface and @sandystrachan: So you’re happy this woman is died because she was annoying and spent her time pointlessly seeking attention?

Hmmm…perhaps we should start a Fluther death pool on you two.

Rest in peace uncle fester

She passed away? How sad.
I follow a gossip community, and they post stuff about her. People would always say the most vile things. Just because she had said some racist remarks at some point…and honestly, I saw the footage of the racist stuff, and it was pretty tame. And she even apologized to the person a lot.
Awful, I know she was in a lot of pain. I’m glad she isn’t in pain anymore.

@gailcalled i have gave up work to be an unpaid carer for someone with a disability
why is it that just because she has/had cancer does everyone love her and take her side.
smear tests are something most females take once a year,granted they don’t always but i wouldn’t say that jade made them have one it was more the fact that it was in the news that they went for it(if they wasn’t going already) .

You know I didn’t really like the girl and didn’t have much time for her. But then again I also don’t watch the shows shes is or read news papers, and part of that is for the very reason that they publicise and promote people like her.

If your life has been so infected by her that you are cheering when she is dead then I would strongly suggest that you look elsewhere for your entertainment as being part of the machine that feeds her, then cheering when she dies, painfully, leaving behind two motherless young children seems to me to be more than a little bit sick, and a whole lot sicker than anything she has ever done.

More press than Princess Di? I never heard of her, but if what you say is true, somewhere, I might be able to say something like, “I am glad this won’t be eating up all the media time, ” But Cheer? Really? That just sounds cruel. I must be watching a different press.

@sandystrachan no one in this thread has suggested that we love this woman and take her side because she has/had cancer. I for one feel no more love for her than I would for any other fellow human being, and have no idea what “side” she was even on. I think we are all suggesting that this woman, who left two young children behind, be treated with the dignity she deserves, regardless of her appearances on any reality television shows.

Gail’s point is a very good and valid point. This woman made her fight with cervical cancer a public one, and regardless of her motivations, many women may have been saved by the publicity it brought her.

If you’re not from the UK, you probably didn’t even notice. Here in the US she just kind of slid under the radar. The only reason I knew at all was because I check yahoo.co.uk religiously for sports updates. On that note, since i’m not in the UK and being inundated with it everyday I don’t particularly care more or less than I would about any other perfect stranger’s passing.

I bet her children aren’t cheering. Regardless of how much the woman annoyed you, I would hope you would have enough class to realize she has a family who would give anything to have her back.

@All; Rememeber that Katie Couric publicly hared her husband’s unsuccessful struggle with colon cancer and then had her colonoscopy shown on TV. That got a huge number of people to the GI guys.

And Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder behaved the same when she contracted fatal ovarian cancer. There is much more research and better treatment now for that.

Does that also imply loving them and taking sides? Such an odd choice of words. I am a breast cancer survivor and am grateful for however the research funds have been raised.

I am also surprised that a caregiver would not have more empathy.

edit: That’s “aired,” ^^ although I am fond of “hared.”

@trickface Yes, she was someone who got famous through Big Brother, and she was pretty well-known in the UK. To compare her to Princess Diana in terms of media exposure is not quite accurate. As with all celebrities, the press chastised her when she misbehaved, then treated her last illness with an altogether sudden sympathy. The last few months of her life were unfortunately a massive media circus.

It is incredibly naive of the people in the UK to think they knew this woman or any other reality show participant. The producers of that genre manipulate the footage and the situations until they are in fact unreality.

There are manufactured villains and heroes and overall the stories are low-brow, low-rent rip-offs of well-written fiction.

Trickface: you might as well cheer the death of Vivian Vyle or grieve the death of Caroline Martin. Jade Goody was a person, not a TV character and you are just out of touch with reality.