Please don't oversimplify this by implying it's a class issue. It's easy to suggest the vitriol is purely a middle-class response to a working-class person 'getting above their station', but there are so many variables - none of which can be put down to class.
In the nicest possible way, you can do better than that.
Maybe you have a point, I might be overstating the point, but I do think class has a bearing on how each of these people chose to end their lives and how each was perceived.
Jade may have done the grubby 'OK' sanctioned last minute money run on her way out to ensure long term stability for her children - but I am pretty sure during the latter days of the dignified demise of John Diamond, there would have been solicitors moving funds to long term high interest deposits, transferring of assets and other financial dealings to similarly leave his children out of reach of financial problems when they grow up.
They each did it the only way they knew, one is no more dignified than the other (dignified being one of those meaningless and unqualifiable words I hate).
Anyhow, she's dead now, enough of all this, let's find the body, dig it up and eat it.
Maybe you have a point, I might be overstating the point, but I do think class has a bearing on how each of these people chose to end their lives and how each was perceived.
Jade may have done the grubby 'OK' sanctioned last minute money run on her way out to ensure long term stability for her children - but I am pretty sure during the latter days of the dignified demise of John Diamond, there would have been solicitors moving funds to long term high interest deposits, transferring of assets and other financial dealings to similarly leave his children out of reach of financial problems when they grow up.
They each did it the only way they knew, one is no more dignified than the other (dignified being one of those meaningless and unqualifiable words I hate).
Anyhow, she's dead now, enough of all this, let's find the body, dig it up and eat it.