Sad to read today that Jane Tomlinson eventually lost the fight last night at the tragically young age of 43. She was a remarkable woman. She raised £1.75 million with her various fundraising ventures....a really amazing person.
Sad to read today that Jane Tomlinson eventually lost the fight last night at the tragically young age of 43. She was a remarkable woman. She raised £1.75 million with her various fundraising ventures....a really amazing person.
CDV
yes very sad, what a remarkable woman!!!!
she should receive some sort of honour for all she has done for cancer research!
may she rest in peace. so lovingly deserved xxx God bless Jane xx
Liesa
Shame to hear yet someone else has lost their life to drugs seem to be a thing that happens a lot to younger people know .
MAUREEN
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Maureen, Jane died of cancer after a 7 year fight during which time she raised a fortune for cancer charities.
Caroline & Dave
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Shame to hear yet someone else has lost their life to drugs seem to be a thing that happens a lot to younger people know .
MAUREEN
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Drugs???? Maureen she died from Cancer[msnsad] God Bless rest in peace[grouphug]
Jane Tomlinson, who outran terminal cancer in seven inspiring years of astonishing athletic activity and fundraising for charity, has died at age 43, her family said Tuesday.
Tomlinson continued working as a medical radiographer, ran marathons, finished one triathlon and last year completed a bike ride across America.
She died Monday night at St. Gemma's Hospice in Leeds, her home town in central England, her family said.
Tomlinson lived with breast cancer since 1990, but being told seven years ago that she had just six month to live inspired her to become a super-athlete. Pain only seemed to spur her on.
"No one was more surprised than us when she took out a gym membership in October 2000, a few weeks after the terminal diagnosis. It seemed, on the face of it, massively out of character," her family said in a statement.
It is to her remarkable achievement that it became the norm for her to complete one marathon or triathlon after another."
Starting with a 10-kilometer race in 2001, Tomlinson went on to run several marathons and an Iron Man triathlon, and last year she completed a 6,780-kilometer (4,213-mile) bicycle ride from San Francisco to New York City.
She also pedaled the length of Britain in 2003 and from Rome to her home town of Leeds the following year.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the whole nation would be saddened by her death.
"Jane's mission in life was a simple one: to make the most of every day and to help others, and she not only achieved that several times over, but inspired millions of others along the way," Brown said.
"She fought a very brave fight, of Olympian proportions, right to the end of her earthly life, and has left us a legacy of courage when faced with difficulty; of striving for others despite one's own important needs," said Arthur Roche, the Roman Catholic bishop of Leeds.
Tomlinson was modest about her achievements.
"I'm not taking part to say to people, 'Look what I can achieve.' I'm taking part because I want to," she said before running in the 2003 London marathon.
She raised 1.75 million pounds (€2.6 million; US$3.5 million) for charity, her family said.
"The weight of this burden has been immense on all of us, but primarily Jane. We hope that she is now at peace from the pain that has accompanied her for so long," her family said in a statement.
In June, Tomlinson said, "the reality is that this will probably be the last summer that I get to spend with my family."
"I've had seven years to contemplate the fact that I'm not going to be around for my family but it doesn't make that end point any clearer, I don't think, and it doesn't make it any easier when you meet it," she said.
She is survived by her husband, Mike; children Suzanne, Rebecca and Steven, and a granddaughter, Emily.
Funeral plans were not immediately announced.
Goodnight and Godbless to a truly remarkable young woman
Rest in Peace Jane you deserve it [grouphug]
Sheena.[msncry]
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She was a Heroine (not 'on Herion' the drug)..
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MAUREEN
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