Wow, one good idea in over 99 years of life…
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Probably had that obit ready to go for decades.
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So was Albert. People died young for all sorts of reasons in the 19th Century.
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Punching Nazis and Fascists since 1939.
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Just posted on the Guardian’s rolling coverage of this unfolding and highly newsworthy event:
A death gun salute will be fired at noon on Saturday to mark the death of the Duke of Edinburgh
I don’t know what that is but it sounds appropriate somehow
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All news organisations will scramble to get films on air and obituaries online. At the Guardian, the deputy editor has a list of prepared stories pinned to his wall. The Times is said to have 11 days of coverage ready to go. At Sky News and ITN, which for years rehearsed the death of the Queen substituting the name “Mrs Robinson”, calls will go out to royal experts who have already signed contracts to speak exclusively on those channels. “I am going to be sitting outside the doors of the Abbey on a hugely enlarged trestle table commentating to 300 million Americans about this,”
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That was my first thought too. Personally I think I’m going to be in mourning for at least three days, maybe even a week. Preferably in July.
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Keep the pubs open. All the best funerals end with everyone going down to the pub.
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KEEP the pubs open? Haven’t you heard…
I haven’t been near a pub in over a year. Sigh.
Now you can’t get near one (assuming it has a beer garden) without a reservation.
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There are quite some comments to read, so I’m sure someone already pointed this out: it’s common knowledge, and I guess there will be a statistical analysis for this as well.
I wouldn’t bet on both to come to the same conclusion, since women statistically have a longer life then men, since the invention of antibiotics anyway.
I assumed we were talking about that Britain that should be (no covid spreading no-maskers for a start), rather than the Britain that we live in. We probably won’t get a bank holiday, and we will get an unpaid compulsory 10 minutes silence instead.
I’m in news lockdown until Philip is buried. My life is shit enough without state mourning as well.
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Speaking of death procedures and rituals…
NSFW (sex related object), tasteless and probably too soon, but this is part of my mourning. Laughing is essential for the transition from denial to later stages.
Reveal only if you are prepared for the sublimity of the unexpected.
A friend from college days, a key organizer in keeping community alive in person and online, passed away unexpectedly yesterday.
Less than 12 hours before he died, he posted this in our FB group:
Should we be interpreting this as his last will and testament?
Did he have some premonition that the end was near? Subconscious awareness?
Just one of life’s little reminders that every post you make could be your last, or even if not, it could be what you are remembered for.
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Only problem with that is the cremains (“ashes”) are the remaining bone fragments – so unless your bone density also markedly increased you’re not going to have “more” to go around no matter how much weight you gain. (If anything, a sedentary lifestyle will decrease your bone density).
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Thank Cthulhu for the internet because terrestrial tv has been a right-off for the entire day, least i got some serious Ross and Carrie listening done. There’s only so much that can possibly be said about the death of a nonagenarian.
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Technically it’s right. He died yesterday.
Maybe having it tweet at 1 AM wasn’t the best idea though.
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You see the pattern here right?
Woman dies, husband soon follows.
Man dies, woman continues on for decades…
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I had been thinking that she would just say ‘Happy 100th’ across the breakfast table.
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