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National grief

JenNeg

I can logically understand why the nation is reacting to the Queen's death in the way that it is, but I am finding it harder and harder to deal with. I've had quite a lot of grief in my life, loosing relatives and friends. I can't really understand why people who didn't know the Queen personally are getting so emotional. My Dad keeps crying, which he never usually does.

Can anyone help me understand the whole situation?

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  • Sadly no, because I don't get it either. I understand why her immediate family would have a tough time, she was their mum and nan. Yet they don't even get private time to grieve. I sympathise for them as humans.

    Meanwhile, a whole nation queues for hours to invade the family's mourning, to express what I don't really know for some one they never met and didn't know? Why are they doing that? It seems disrespectful not respectful to me. Why do they do that?

    I do get that she was also a public figure whose life and work need to be reviewed and celebrated on the Beeb or whatever, but really she was an old lady who had done her bit and has moved on to better things. It's not like it's a surprise that she's passed or anything. So, no not getting it at all.

    I really don't understand why we aren't just leaving the family alone. Meanwhile what is this public obsession thing? Can they really be THAT emotional? Why?

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  • Sadly no, because I don't get it either. I understand why her immediate family would have a tough time, she was their mum and nan. Yet they don't even get private time to grieve. I sympathise for them as humans.

    Meanwhile, a whole nation queues for hours to invade the family's mourning, to express what I don't really know for some one they never met and didn't know? Why are they doing that? It seems disrespectful not respectful to me. Why do they do that?

    I do get that she was also a public figure whose life and work need to be reviewed and celebrated on the Beeb or whatever, but really she was an old lady who had done her bit and has moved on to better things. It's not like it's a surprise that she's passed or anything. So, no not getting it at all.

    I really don't understand why we aren't just leaving the family alone. Meanwhile what is this public obsession thing? Can they really be THAT emotional? Why?

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