It's morbid to film a hearse

"It was different in the past, people didn't photograph tragedy"

There are pictures of the survivors taken on the Carpathian when it rescued people from the Titanic. There are drawings done by survivors from what they remembered, or incorrectly drawn from retelling.

There are pictures of hangings and public executions and military tragedies and dead outlaws in the Old West

Being sensitive and thinking death is private is a relatively modern consideration

Someone I work with was up there today and sent me a video clip

I felt very uncomfortable. I don't know why he thought I'd want to see that. I didn't reply.

I get that Ozzy was showbiz and he's probably okay with it but it just doesn't sit well with me. In fact, the clip that was sent to me, I can basically see a bunch of phones being held up and then the hearse.

I do understand that it's people's way of paying tribute. I just preferred the old ways.

Ozzy said he didn't want people crying and bawling over his death.

This part was very public, and the public does whatever. I remember Diana's funeral and people screaming her name whilst the hearse went past.

I took photos at my own grandad's funeral. The flowers were beautiful, and I wanted to remember them. It was not for "socials" at all.

Ozzy himself had said he didn't want this to be a tearfest (or similar words). The whole idea and point was for this to be loud and noisy and a celebration.

His actual funeral is tomorrow, in private, where his family can grieve privately

Modern world isn’t it? If you aren’t watching it through your phone camera, it’s not actually happening and you weren’t really there.

It is a bit, but I feel like Ozzy would probably rate it, he had cameras his whole life. When Susan up the road posts from a funeral tho I do think that’s more gross

The whole thing is distasteful, as the Osbornes have always been, and will continue to be probably. Sorry if that offends anyone, but I expected nothing less.

Oh come on!!! The Osbornes are soaking up every minute of the circus. They're showbiz through and through. They planned it the way it happened and are playing up to it, with a little added drama by stopping the funeral procession to lay flowers on the shrine ..... Not minimising their grief and sadness blah blah but they know exactly what they're doing.

People weren’t whooping and cheering at the Queens funeral as I recall?

I think fans and well wishers could have shown a bit more decorum to be honest. Yes he was a rock god to many, but his family were in pieces and perhaps would have appreciated it to be a little more subdued. It was a funeral after all, not a stadium gig.

I don’t feel strongly about the filming. But I did think the cheering, and shouts of “Sharon, Sharon, Sharon” to be in poor taste and not an appropriate or kind thing to be doing to a grieving widow and family. I’m surprised no one asked for a selfie 🙄 Show a modicum of respect at someone’s funeral.

My mate went and sent some footage, it was most oddly touching to hear the chants and applause. We love you Oswald, we do, ooooh Oswald we love you; thank you Ozzy (clap clap clap clap).

So in this instance, YABU.

Its not for clicks, ozzy had a huge fan base he is the godfather of heavy metal music. the Osbournes also invented reality tv as we know it.
the queens funeral was on tv and nobody said that was grim? Really disrespectful comments on here.

It wasn't when I asked.

His family arranged and suggested every part of today BTW

Yea I'm finding it incredibly uncomfortable at seeing so many pictures of Sharon and the children grieving. Even on BBC news (I would expect it from paparazzi rags but not the BBC). It's so disrespectful. I had my dad's funeral 18 months ago and I can't begin to imagine what it would have felt like to have people filming and snapping photos of me.

Of course they are not going to rewatch the video in their own time. They are purely doing it for social media clicks. It's a sad fony world we live in today.

His entire schtick was gothic prince of darkness stuff. I doubt he’d consider a video of a hearse particularly dark!

It's in the thread

I've been in Sharon's position, albeit on a much smaller scale. My DP was well known in the local community, a flamboyant character, and i was told early on in proceedings by other people close to him that I had to remember he wasn't just mine. So, a spectacle was had, horse drawn hearse and all, and I essentially became the stage manager. I just had to accept it "wasn't all about me", and I was after all, only the widow. About a thousand attended his funeral apparently, though I started drinking neat vodka at breakfast time, so it's all a bit of a blur.

I think people underestimate how difficult it is to "take control" and keep things respectful in these sort of circumstances, due to external pressure. Public figures such as Ozzy and many who've gone before will attract an element of three ring circus because that's how they lived and they made their living as public property. Whether people like it or not, there are expectations.

Ozzys family might be cringing inside, or the process might be comforting, only they can know, and it's nobody else's business.

But if it's a public situation, people are going to film and photograph. It's inured now, whether we like it or not, and I'm sure the family won't give a flying fuck one way or the other.

I just hope Sharon gets some breathing space after. Being the widow of someone even slightly well known in a relatively small community is a most bizarre experience, so how it is for her I can't fully imagine. But, every grief is unique and I think while it could all be considered distasteful to film etc, in Ozzys case it is a reflection of how he lived.

It’s part and parcel of choosing to be a celebrity. You choose to live your life in the public sphere and make your money by having the general public interested in all the stuff about you they wouldn’t be interested in if you were a nobody, and that may ultimately include the bit immediately after you stop being alive. If you’d rather that wasn’t the case you can a) not be a professional celebrity and or / b) express your wishes to your family that you don’t have a very showy public last outing and that they do something quiet and private instead.

I’m not convinced that a family who commissioned an entire TV series about themselves and their often distasteful home life would think (or are entitled to think) of the same people who tuned in to that TV series and made them even more famous and wealthy as morbid for tuning in and showing up to the finale.

How is it different to the Queen? Or the Pope? Or Stephen Gatley? Or any other famous figure?

When someone famous dies, people are involved because they were a public figure

It's not new either. Pictures and drawings would have been in the papers in years gone by too

It would have been expected even. Modern sensibilities towards death are much more detached and distant

I just wondered how many people are going to watch whatever they've recorded; looking at the news footage of fans and their phones, all they'll see will be other phones held above heads.

It’s really odd and disrespectful. Although I’ve known people post pictures of funerals on Facebook.

super weird behaviour.

That really is bad.