Anyone going to watch this documentary about a 16 year old mother of a 2 year old girl dying of cancer. She made home videos for her daughter to watch when she was older, so she wouldn't forget her. She died last September in her mothers arms.

It will be on bbc 1 next Tuesday (24.5.05) tissues will need to be at the ready, will be very touching.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/programme.shtml?day=tuesday&service_id=4223&filename=20050524/20050524_2235_4223_4821_40

Is the documentary discussing/ highlighting a particular issue? How we cope with death or illness or something?

It just a true story of a younger mothers short life and the love for her baby girl.

Very very touching.

If it doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then you must have a heart of lead

A tear to the eye - watching someone you love dying from cancer does a bit more than that :|

Just reading the brief on the BBC website made me feel teary eyed so the documentary should be a toughy.

Think I'll give it a view albeit close the bone... my friend at school dies when she was 17 from Cancer :(

I think I might watch it later, I have a handful of tissues ready.... for my cold not because I would be crying or anything... (yeah right) :? :cry:

Originally posted by Siân
A tear to the eye - watching someone you love dying from cancer does a bit more than that :|

yeh, i ment us the viewer.... ofcourse the mum would have been in a state having her 16 year old daughter die in her arms :loopy:

Originally posted by steelcitybab
yeh, i ment us the viewer.... ofcourse the mum would have been in a state having her 16 year old daughter die in her arms :loopy:

I'm sure you didn't mean to but to me it sounded like you were looking forward to some entertainment value from this. Which is why I made the point I did.

(There's a lot more to grief than being 'in a state')

Originally posted by Siân
I'm sure you didn't mean to but to me it sounded like you were looking forward to some entertainment value from this. Which is why I made the point I did.

(There's a lot more to grief than being 'in a state')

when i posted this earlier:
Originally posted by steelcitybab
tissues will need to be at the ready, will be very touching.
and this:
Originally posted by steelcitybab
Very very touching.

No way, i nearly cried reading it in the paper earlier. Sorry if i didn't type it right, and sorry you miss read it!

Just listened to an interesting debate on this. The programme hasn't finished yet but it'll be available to listen to again once it has.



The Message - Radio 4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/themessage.shtml)

And over the years we have read a number of moving tales of cancer battles from writers like John Diamond, whose column in the Times dealt with his ultimately terminal throat cancer. More people with a cancer diagnosis are choosing to come forward and share their experiences with a wider audience, but is this a good or a bad thing? How does it affect the people writing about their experiences and the audience who share them?

I was interested to hear about this documentary & after Steelcitybab posted this thread I went & found out more. Ultimately though I felt it was wrong to watch the programme. Possibly because I see it as a very personal experience. One that you'd share with only the most trusted people.

I can see the positive side of showing experiences like this - although personally I feel that sharing an experience via a book rather than on film allows privacy in what is possibly the most personal & painful thing anyone can go through.

I'd be interested to hear others' opinions on this - whether or not you watched the documentary.

I watched the programme and found it very touching and very sad. One of the sadest parts for me was when the little girl was sent away for the final days of her mothers life, what a hearbreaking decision to have to make :(

Originally posted by Siân
I'd be interested to hear others' opinions on this - whether or not you watched the documentary.

I started watching this half way through, and whilst I'm not making judgements on whether or not it should have been aired, I personally found it a bit too sad and uncomfortable to watch. I turned it over. Not sure whether that's to do with me worrying about my own mortality though.

It was an amazing documentary.

The family were so strong to film it and then allow the public to view it.
The little girl will always be able to see her mum on the video, which has to be good for her to understand how brave her mum was.

It was very sad but very thought provoking.

I watched it all.. it was very touching as i thought it would be. I thought the sister who did the talking was very strong for her sister, because she didn't want to upset them by crying infront of her family, that must of been very hard.

I cried through out it and when i thought about that poor little girl after. the more i thought about it, the more i cried. The little girl, will know how much her mum loved her though, Becky was very brave though, to still carry on trying, for her daughter.

I ended up missing it :(

I have no doubt that I would of cried all the way through though :cry: