I hope cretins are now satisfied that Jane is dead

I hope the cretins who accused Jane Tomlinson as a fraud and an attention grabber are now satisfied that she's dead. Though sometimes enduring extreme pain and suffering, she single-handedly raised well over £1 million for research into the disease that was slowly killing her.

Perhaps one day in the future, if these cynics or their loved ones are struck by this illness, they might just spare a thought for Jane and appreciate the good she did and recognise the legacy she left.

Peter Charles, Hillsborough

n Let’s be clear. It was not the case that on Monday Jane Tomlinson ‘lost her seven-year battle with terminal cancer’. She simply died that day, seven years after she was told she had six months to live.

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During those seven years she lived an extraordinary and exemplary life. Driven it seems by a love both for her immediate family and for so many beyond that family, she found in herself, and used, capacities that most of us leave dormant.

As a Christian, I would say she courageously demonstrated that rich and generous life that God wants for and from all of us.

But, Christian or otherwise, we can all surely see that this life in no way ended with a defeat.

Jane Tomlinson’s life on earth ended. She died. But, given the nature of the life, to speak of this in terms of the loss of a battle does Jane Tomlinson no justice, and us no favours.

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Let us rather celebrate – as, to be fair, your article went on to do – a victory that should both humble and inspire us. Jane Tomlinson was, and remains, good news.

Richard Pinder, Byron Road, Sheffield 7

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