It's not about class, or age, or who the fuck likes Boris Johnson.
The fact of the matter is, Jade Goody is a massive twat who just happens to be dying of cancer. End of.
Roy Castle was just an example I used to hilight the plight of a person (there are thousands of them out there, both celebrity and non-celebrity) who was diagnosed with a terminal disease and actually did something positive, not for himself, but for other people; in the hope that his small actions might indeed help a great many others in their dealing with a similar problem. I'm sure you'll see a few hundred of them running the London Marathon in little over a months time; Jade Goody tried one year but oh no, she didn't do a single bit of exercise for it. Yeah, good effort love.
You can sit here and argue the toss of "Oh but it's the media.. we feed the media machine.. she's a product of society.. her poor kids.. woe is her" and all of that hippy bullshit until the cows come home but the fact of the matter is Jade Goody has always been take, take and more take. Even now, on the walk to her death bed, she's taking even more money. If she's so fucking lovely, why doesn't her final act involve liquidising her assets, setting up The Jade Goody Cancer Research Fund and making her kids (albeit when/if they are of a certain educational level to manage a fund) the bosses? That might set them up for life in a better way?
Thousands of ordinary people die every day of diseases and it's a sad view of society to see so much attention shown for one person, who just so happens to be a vile specimen of that society.
+1 couldn't have said it better myself