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Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: das boot on February 26, 2009, 06:17:50 pm

Title: Wendy Richard...
Post by: das boot on February 26, 2009, 06:17:50 pm: I'm no fan of Eastenders, but I always fancied Wendy Richard for some perverse reason. Another one of the countries best actresses has gone...

RIP Wendy.

Rich
Title: Re: Wendy Richard...
Post by: Marks Model Bits on February 26, 2009, 06:22:39 pm: i will always remember her as Miss Brahms in Are you Being Served................ Nice pins!!!!!!!!!!

Mark
Title: Re: Wendy Richard...
Post by: craftysod on February 26, 2009, 07:11:53 pm: RIP Wendy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxODXcwsqXI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aMIAiseHP4

Mark
Title: Re: Wendy Richard...
Post by: maninthestreet on February 26, 2009, 10:52:24 pm: Quote from: no mustang mark on February 26, 2009, 06:22:39 pm
i will always remember her as Miss Brahms in Are you Being Served................ Nice pins!!!!!!!!!!

Mark

She helped me through the early stages of puberty, but she never knew it
Title: Re: Wendy Richard...
Post by: Martin (Admin) on February 26, 2009, 11:05:38 pm: I always liked her performances as the screechy cockney bird in Dad's Army.
Title: Re: Wendy Richard...
Post by: Turbulent on March 02, 2009, 11:28:40 am: At least she went with Dignity, unlike some.
Title: Re: Wendy Richard...
Post by: garston1 on March 02, 2009, 04:45:44 pm: Here Here!!
Title: Re: Wendy Richard...
Post by: regiment on March 02, 2009, 07:11:47 pm: as you say went with courage and dignity not like you know who splashed all over the papers must be hundreds of women in the same position are they in the paper day in day out of course not they have DIGNITY
Title: Re: Wendy Richard...
Post by: Colin Bishop on March 02, 2009, 07:29:28 pm: I think we should be more circumspect in our comments. One of the features of cancer is that it strips away your dignity and can destroy your personality as I know from experience in my own family. People you love can be changed beyond recognition and reduced to a pitiful state and that is a very hard thing to witness.

There is also quite a bit of difference in the attitude between somebody who has lived most of their life and can reconcile themselves to their fate to some extent and somebody who is in their youthful prime with everything to live for and who faces the prospect of being extinguished in great pain and fear.

A little more compassion would be in order. You may think that if it happened to you you would be brave and stoic but in reality it often doesn't work out that way. Dying can be a painful and nasty business and is frequently undignified and messy - that's why it doesn't get reported. Just pray that when it is your turn it is quick and easy.

Colin
Title: Re: Wendy Richard...
Post by: Bryan Young on March 02, 2009, 08:15:04 pm: I agree with Colin. Watching parents die is not an "item" for newspapers. Having said that, why do some people feel the need to hire low-lifes" like Max Clifford to publicise their suffering....and the then the newspapers will of course gleefully gobble it up. There is a very distinct difference between the reported interviews with Mr.Snow (re his wifes dementia) and the paparazzi style of wanting a pic of Jade in her dying days. Pretty sickening (by both the victim and manipulator). BY