Jade Goody: Another victim of Club 27?

Mar 25 2009 By Ben Goldby

Ben Goldby writes a conspiracy theory blog on our sister site at www.sundaymercury.net - this week he examines the death of Jade Goody and how she became the latest in a long list of celebrities to die aged 27...

The tragic death of Jade Goody at just 27-years-old has left the nation in mourning.

But for conspiracy buffs is raises once more one of the most morbid, yet interesting, theories out there.

Club 27, as it has become known, is a group of notable stars who have all died at just 27.

The membership list reads like a who's who of celebrities, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, all lost their lives at the dreaded age.

In the case of some of these legendary figures, their deaths have been shrouded in mystery.

Cobain's final hours, depressed, drugged and alone, will remain a riddle, but conspiracy theories abound as to whether he would have been able to pull the trigger on the shotgun that claimed his young life.

Hendrix's end was also drug-linked, while Joplin lost her life to the same heroin addiction that had so consumed Cobain.