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I am disgusted by the comments of Jan Moir in the D.M. who is casting aspersions on Stephen Gately's lifestyle in relation to his sad and untimely death. She said "Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do not just climb into their pyjamas and go to sleep on the sofa, never to wake up again."
This woman needs to learn about SADS as regrettably her statement is completely untrue.

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The woman is an unfeeling idiot.

Lizx

We all gotta go sometime, Liz, and we normally have no say in how, when or where it happens........

Bob

Agree with you 110% Liz....12-15 'healthy young people' die from SADS related illnesses each and every week in this country alone. Stephen Gatley is most probably just another 'victim'

Bob, that's as maybe but this woman's comments do not help the family of Stephen or others who have died from SADS or in a similar way, so she is not speaking the truth with her comment which I highlighted.

Thanks Col, we all know how Gillian Jennifer suffered the loss of her Stephen and her whole family are affected by SADS

More publicity and funding for research and testing, is the way forward, not stupid remarks like Jan M made, she should apologise and pay money to the charity for SADS

Lizx

I haven't read it Liz, have you complained to the Editor in Chief?

Sue x

Apparantly this article has been reported to the press complaints authority more than any other complaint. I have'nt read it but have heard on the radio about how revolting the article was, casting aspertions on his lifestyle and sexuality.
fgs, the poor man is barely cold, what happened to respect for the dead and their families.

I agree with every word you said Liz.

The stupid woman wants to look at this
http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/my_story_loss.htm

they had a dr on radio 5 last night when they were discuing this and he said 500 cases a year.

He said for his lungs to of filled that much his heart must of gone really wrong as in electrically and that there no way drinking would of caused that much fluid in his lungs.

The hot also said his family said their were other cases in their family like it.

I hadn't seen the article or aftermath till a few minutes ago.... she was a restaurant critic.... obviously a belly bigger than her brain...

Hello Liz....l have'nt read the article either, but have heard about the complaints. l completely agree with every word you said.

jude xx

Thanks all who replied, I am sure there will be more written about this now that there has been so much criticism altho I think I heard that the Daily Mail stood by her comments. Clearly she needs educating and I hope someone from CRY or similar will be making contact with the paper and getting something in there to explain that her comment is incorrect.

Seems sad that Stephen's family have this problem already in their family and haven't investigated further, maybe now they will get checked out the way our Gillian got her family checked.

Lizx

I read it but put it down to her normal ignorance. Can't stand her. I hope somebody will reply publicly to it. It need a doctor or somebody from Cry.

My young DIL died suddenly in the night last summer so know how it feels!! How would her little boy feel if he had to face uninformed comments like those in the article!

Purple I saw this too, and was incenced by her ignorance, and to put it into print at such a sad and emotional time for all his family and friends. When I saw the picture of Ronan Keeting close up today, my heart bled for him, as it does for all his family.
So sad, so sad. God rest you Stephen.
Julia in Derbyshire

She needs to do some researching before she engages her mouth. Seems to assume anyone in the show business must be leading a life of rock and roll with drugs and booze.
I remember many years ago going to school with a young lad who went on to Grammar School at aged 12. He broke his leg aged 15 playing soccer and went to hospital to have it fixed under anaesthetic and didnt come out of it . seems he had an underlying heart problem that hadnt been detected .
So YES Jan apparently healthy young men or woman can suddenly die with no apparent pre warning AND not from any lifestyle excessess

Researching my family, I found my 2 x great grandmother, went to bed one night, and never woke. This was in 1863, and there was a Coroner's case. I dont suppose they knew of SADS in those days, but that is what I think it must have been. She was only about 30 at the time.

she is old enough to remember the death of tv's Richard Beckinsale ( Rising Damp and Porridge)... a healthy young man who died in his sleep of a massive heart attack....( " he seemed healthy and fit and had no cardiac problems in his medical records." ...2 health checks in the previous year ) .

Seems this has really stirred up a hornet's nest, yet the D.M. seem to be supporting her! Wonder if they will be so supportive if they have to pay a big fine or whatever the punishment is for publishing homophobic comments etc

Lizx

She is a sensationalist reporter. The Daily Mail really ought to now do a report from CRY on SADS to counteract her remarks.

From the DM e mail replies and remarks


Moir has responded in a statement which said: 'Some people, particularly in the gay community, have been upset by my article about the sad death of Boyzone member Stephen Gately. This was never my intention. The point of my column was to suggest that, in my honest opinion, his death raises many unanswered questions.'
The Press Complaints Commission has received more than 1,000 complaints and one complaint has been made to the metropolitan police


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