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I just don't have much in the way of pity for her. Even the 'yeah, but think of the kids' arguments just do not wash with me. I feel really bad for her family and those close to her but I object to having it thrust upon me by our ever-intrusive media. I would have been truly shocked if i had found out that she had died without having publicised her illness, but the media synthesising grief on my behalf is, in my opinion, obnoxious.
I have nothing at all against Goody as a person, although as a celebrity brand she represented much that I abhor in our society. Her death is just not any of my business. I'm not easily offended but I found her high-profile 'celebrity death' entirely vulgar and undignified. Who could deny that having Max Clifford do the hospital spokesperson bit is anything but crass? Whilst I wouldn't wish what she has been through on anyone and as sad as it is, if i were being cynical I'd suggest that her death was the ultimate ending to her choice of career in public life.
My aunty is having an extremely hard time of it at the moment and a tremble when I think of it. This fact has provoked anger in me when I'm surrounded by evocative/provocative images and words designed to milk my sensitivity, with (undeniably) the aim of selling me newspapers etc. Regardless of her particular plight, I find this despicably immoral.
I was rattled when I heard she had died, it's one of the saddest stories I can remember.