Guardian pulls 'death bed selfie' cancer column as sufferer tweets concern

The Guardian has removed a column written by Emma Gilbey Keller which focused on the Twitter account and blog of Lisa Bonchek Adams, a mother of three who is being treated for stage four breast cancer. The column has been described by Keller as the equivalent of a ‘death bed selfie’.Her husband, Bill Keller, also published a column on the subject in The New York Times.The column questioned Adams' documenting her illness via Twitter."Are her tweets a grim equivalent of deathbed selfies, one step further than funeral selfies?" she had written.Adams had publicly criticised the column via her Twitter account."I'm quite perplexed and concerned," she wrote. "Misses everything I'm trying to do. Stunned. Saddened,” she tweeted.

Lisa Bonchek Adams

If Keelers had actually really been following my writing since metastatic diag in 2012, they wld know I spend very few tweets complaining...

— Lisa Bonchek Adams (@AdamsLisa) January 14, 2014