to think overtaking a funeral cortege is beyond discourteous

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

3 times on 2 mile journey the procession was overtaken by impatient twits. I wasn't in the process in, just the first car behind the 2 ca s following the hearse.

Really? Have people got such low levels of respect these days.

[auld]

My dad's cortege got stuck in a traffic jam at the crematorium with about three other funerals (big crem, several chapels)... I can't say I would have noticed or cared if anyone overtook us.

YABU the death of a family member or friend doesn't give you the right to hold everybody else up.

Frequent funerals pass by my mums, as she lives on the long road to the local cemetary, and I always try to factor that fact in when doing journeys to and from her house. I try not to overtake, but it is occasionally neccesary, however, I never cut in between the hearse and the obvious cortarge cars (provided by undertaker) as it is really a sign of disrespect. I also stop and bow my head if I am walking and one goes past, and have taught my DC to do this too.

Nanny0gg me too. On the way to the cemetery to bury my dad a young man, maybe twentyish stopped, took off his baseball cap and lowered his head.

It made me cry more & I wish I could have told him what that meant to me.

yanbu

we were told at a family funeral in january to put our hazards on to show we were part of the funeral procession. didn't stop the fecking bus driver who cut inbetween the hearses at the front tho.

So its not ok for a funeral procession to hold you up but its ok for family members to miss the funeral because they got lost on the way because of everyone cutting in ?

YANBU OP, emergency vehicles aside.

All those saying "what if I'm late for a job interview/picking up DD, etc"

Don't you factor in possible hold ups to your journey time anyway? A funeral procession isn't going to hold you up all that long.

I appreciated it for my own mother's funeral. I would never pass a funeral.

I've been in the 'upfront' car a few times and to be honest, I wouldn't have noticed if Billy Smart had pulled up between us and the hearse.

I wouldn't overtake though. Its a very private journey for family and friends and its very important that it is done 'properly'. UInlive the vicar at mums funeral who started the service with half of the front row missing (outside the church doing the 'meet and greet').

My dad was done for speeding in a hearse. Those things have a 5l engine and can move.

He was trying to get to a hospital to pick up a body before they closed for the day... We. Used to tell him, lucky he drove a car with dead people in it as no-one living would get in a car with him.

Don't you factor in possible hold ups to your journey time anyway? A funeral procession isn't going to hold you up all that long.

It is if it's on the way from/to the main cemetery or crematorium, which are both 5 mins from my house. I treat funeral corteges with the same courtesy as I treat every other vehicle on the road. I am still not going to drive at 5mph for 4 miles out of respect for someone I don't know at the expense of being late for work/missing appointment etc.

Funeral processions don't generally drive at 5mph for 4 miles (with the exception of those including a horse drawn hearse).

Usually they only drive exceptionally slowly right at the very beginning and end of the journey.

YANBU.

Reading a thread like this makes you think about what sort of society you want to live in. I think taking the time and courtesy to show respect makes the world a better place.

I have a little superstision (sp) that you should never speed past the dead, not sure where it came from but i just don't like the feeling of rushing past someone who no longer has that option.

TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE !

What I find unacceptable is the idea that one person's unhappiness entitles them to fuck up everyone else's day. Crawling corteges are a serious inconvenience to other people and should really be banned; you have the cemetary/crematorium/religious premises to have your funeral at, so there's a designated place to pay your respects and to grieve. But people die every day, and are duly mourned by those who loved them; no matter how horrible a bereavement is, the rest of the world doesn't have to stop, and people who don't know you, or the deceased, are not wicked for prioritizing their own lives and needs (which may be very important and urgent - would you whine and moan about an ambulance or fire engine cutting up a cortege?) over a ritual for the benefit of people they didn't know and have no connnection with?

Eve.
yy, Skinny, I also have the same weird feeling about overtaking funeral procession - I sort of thought it was generally thought to bad luck.

I am not going to drive along behind a funeral procession at a snails pace if I am nothing to do with the funeral. Very unreasonable to expect anyone to be late for wherever they are going.

would never over take along a single normal road but would on a fast A road - and as the nearest crematorium to me is along an A fast road you know if you see a car going slow through our local town then it will be turning off to go on the fast A road iyswim

what i did notice when it was dh funeral last year :( and i was in the car was that people along the road if saw our car would stop and cross their heart as a sign of respect - and now i do the same if i see one

we did have magnetic flags to put on roofs of cars so all followed me and think were 6 cars were all allowed out when coming out of a junction - rather then separate us

it didnt bother me cars over taking on the fast A road as to follow our hearse and 6 cars all going maybe 40miles an hour would have been insane

but if one overtook on normal road then yes i prob would have been pissed off but then again at dh funeral my head was all over the place so wouldnt have noticed cars overtaking iyswim :(