'Terrible Pain' Prompts Surgery for Dying TV Star

Woman has phobia of hospitals, needles

(NEWSER) - A court's decision to force a woman to have life-saving cancer surgery against her will has triggered a fierce debate on medical ethics in Britain. Doctors will be allowed to forcibly sedate the 55-year-old, who has learning difficulties and a phobia of hospitals and needles, in order to bring her to hospital and operate on her cancer of the uterus. The judge in the case ruled that the woman was incapable of making a rational decision about her care or of fully understanding the consequences of not having surgery. More»

British woman dies because of hospital blunder

(NEWSER) - A British woman died because doctors failed to notice that she had a 6-inch piece of toilet brush—the handle part, not the brush part—embedded in her buttock after a drunken fall, an inquest found. It took 2 years for doctors to discover the source of the woman's chronic pain, by which time it had become embedded in her pelvis, making surgery difficult and dangerous. More»

Production company seeks dying volunteer to demonstrate process

(NEWSER) - Giving new meaning to the term, "that's a wrap," a British TV company would like to film a terminally ill volunteer for a few months before they die—and then mummify them using techniques a scientist says are the same as those used in ancient Egypt. “We are currently keen to talk to someone who, faced with the knowledge of their own terminal illness and all that it entails, would nonetheless consider undergoing the process,” a newspaper ad reads. More»

Tickets to the show will run you $37

(NEWSER) - Seems there is no end of ways to make money off Jade Goody’s death. An artist is staging a reenactment of the British reality star’s final hours, the Mirror reports, and tickets are $37. “This is my tribute to Jade,” said Mark McGowan in a statement. A video preview shows a man singing to a woman with a picture of Goody held in front of her face. More»

(NEWSER) - Thousands of mourners and well-wishers turned out for Jade Goody's funeral today, lining the streets of south London as the the reality star, who died last month of cervical cancer at age 27, made her final journey in a vintage Rolls Royce, the Guardian and CNN report. Massive screens outside St John the Baptist church relayed the ceremony in real time, although the burial afterward was restricted to close friends and family. More»