Jade Goody's wedding: Despite the cancer she decided not only to marry, but to marry in style. Photograph: Living TV/PA
High-profile people before Jade Goody have talked or written movingly about living with cancer and facing up to the prospect of dying from the disease. But the unfolding story of Jade's battle with cervical cancer has been unique in the intensity of the coverage, the huge public interest it has generated and the amount of detail we have learnt about her fight.
This is a very sad story for Jade, her husband, children and family. The thing I most admire about her is that she has been getting on with it; for example, deciding not only to marry, but to marry in style, and she didn't let the cancer get in the way of the wedding.
One of the important things we learnt from the story of the EastEnders actor Wendy Richard, who died last month, was that cancer can come back again and again over many years, and that people have to live in the face of terminal cancer, and make the most of the opportunity and time that they have got.
The lesson from Jade is different.
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