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Reality TV Star Turns Death Into Show

British reality TV star Jade Goody , who appeared on the show 'Big Brother' in 2002, is turning her death into reality television. Goody suffers from terminal cervical cancer and is making a show about her impending demise. Recently, she wed an ex-con named Jack Tweed , in a televised ceremony, which included bridesmaids who had shaved their heads (to mimic Goody's hair loss from chemotherapy). Tweed was allowed by officials to stay out past his house arrest curfew, imposed after his 18-month jail sentence for attacking a teenager with a golf club.Television can do very good things, and it can do very bad things. This is a very bad thing, and Goody is doing no service to herself, her two sons (ages 4 and 5) or the public. Her decision to televise her demise turns what should be private moments between Goody, her children and her "husband" and her Maker (if she believes in God) into entertainment.It dehumanizes her, deprives her children of the certain knowledge that life and death and ...

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