Well, you guessed that, and you guessed wrong. I actually do a 100km in 24 hour continuous walk every year to raise money, and have done for the last 20 years. I've raised money for kids hospices, motor neurone disease charities, cancer research and on occasion to help a specific person. I am truly sorry for JL and her family. And I'm sure a university degree will help her kids. But there are kids in my street who only eat because they receive food parcels. There is someone receiving health care in their home, or a wheelchair user getting a lift installed in their home this month because of charity work I have contributed towards. If this Go Fund Me was raising money for cancer research, I would 100% support it and put my hand in my pocket.
Great, so you can see what a royal jerk you are being then, right? So, you think folks should only give to charities that you support, not ones we support. She's one of our own and represented the sport well.
And if she wants her kids to go to college that's her choice and it's the choice of anyone that wants to donate to that cause. She does not earn income in death, most likely, and won't get paid for sponsorships and appearance fee's if she is no longer alive. She's only 49 years old.
So, if she wants to ensure her kids get something she won't be able to provide, so be it. Who doesn't want to provide for their kids? She's deathly ill and she is only worried about her kids. Kudos is warranted, not a diatribe about giving to the "wrong charity" and that there are other poor folks in the world. My kid graduates college in May and it cost me $120K. Yeah, I guess I could have donated that money to one of your charities and told my son to go pound sand, right?