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What was the last funeral you watched on telly?

  • 11-11-2012 12:59AM
    #1
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,181 ✭✭✭


    Not just happened to see on the news, but consciously made an effort to watch live. I'm not a big royal family fan or anything but I just thought this is a piece of history that my grandkids will probably ask me about.

    So what was the last funeral that you consciously made an effort to watch?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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  • #2
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    barack obama


  • #3
    Butterface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Butterface


    Are there many funerals broadcast live?

    I remember watching Princess Diana's when I was about 9 years old. 'twas a spectacle


  • #4
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    The one where Dougal set the hearse on fire.


  • #5
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,998 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    I've never watched any on TV


  • #6
    scudzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Mickey's from Rocky 2


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  • #7
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Not a funeral as such but the Michael Jackson memorial three years ago.


  • #8
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Some people really will watch anything


  • #9
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    Some people really will watch anything

    I'm watching something right now.

    In answer to the OPs question, I watched Benazir Bhuttos funeral.


  • #10
    Fixing Good
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭Fixing Good


    Flew Shannon to Chicago with royal Jordanian air just after king Husseins death. Had to endure about 5 hours of the funeral on every screen!! Well it was either that or the rug rats in Arabic!!!


  • #11
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,181 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    keith16 wrote: »
    I'm watching something right now.

    In answer to the OPs question, I watched Benazir Bhuttos funeral.


    Thats Hardcore!

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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  • #12
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    keith16 wrote: »
    I'm watching something right now.

    In answer to the OPs question, I watched Benazir Bhuttos funeral.

    Is it a funeral?


  • #13
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    I can't say I have


  • #14
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Fixing Good wrote: »
    Flew Shannon to Chicago with royal Jordanian air just after king Husseins death. Had to endure about 5 hours of the funeral on every screen!! Well it was either that or the rug rats in Arabic!!!


    I had to watch John Tucker must die on a flight to Chicago. Just as painful


  • #15
    cartell_best
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    I was woken up at 4am to be told Princess Di was after dying and watching and genuinely realising it was a piece of history (after some hours). It was far from being a "spectacle" as one poster said. That was my personal rememberance (as probably towards many) of remembering where they were, especially seeing the funeral taking place.


  • #16
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    Is it a funeral?

    Well, I'm not sure what it's referred to as in that part of the world. It's certainly one death that had an impact on me. Don't know why.

    EDIT: Just saw your bolded text now! It's "Inglorious Basterds". So yes, kind of!


  • #17
    starbelgrade
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    Nearly everyone watched the Princess Diana funeral. It was car crash television.


  • #18
    Havermeyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Havermeyer


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Nearly everyone watched the Princess Diana funeral. It was car crash television.

    Ba dum tish.


  • #19
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    What the what??
    I've been to my mother's funeral, and a guy I used to go out with's, that was enough for me!
    Why the fcuk would you watch a funeral on tv??
    You don't know them - what would the point be?
    And if you did know them, surely you'd be there in person.
    I didn't even know they aired funerals on telly!


  • #20
    blacklilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,687 ✭✭✭blacklilly


    Some churches now broadcast funerals on line, (weddings, masses etc are also broadcast)
    Princess Diana was one I watched but wouldnr exactly be uplifting, entertaining tv


  • #21
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Nearly everyone watched the Princess Diana funeral. It was car crash television.

    It's the way I tell em !


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  • #22
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Ayatollah Khomeini twas some film.


  • #23
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,908 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Pope John Paul II


  • #24
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,717 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Gay Byrne's


  • #25
    Old Perry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Old Perry


    Probably Pope J.Paul


  • #26
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Gay Byrne's

    Jaysus I missed that, was it any good and did Wathleen Catkins wear black.


  • #27
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Michael Collins' at the end of a movie. Michael Collins.


  • #28
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Twink


  • #29
    certifiedcrepe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭certifiedcrepe


    Stephen gately


  • #30
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    Ayatollah Khomeini twas some film.
    The Peoples Ayatollah.


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  • #31
    tan11ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    I remember I watched a clip from Jamie Bulgers funeral, It was absolutely heartbreaking. I remember Diana's too.I don't think funerals should be televised though, they should be a private affair.


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