To be fed up with all the cancelled events and miserable feeling

[supermommyof4]

After living a full long life to 96, i just feel that it shouldnt be like this. Celebrate the life she had, why does it have to be so miserable.
Cancelling everything, stopping anything in anyway fun i dont feel is a good way to celebrate the life of someone who lived a long life.
We lost our Mil last sept she was 69, she lost her husband 19 years previous. We were a bit sad but we knew she was out of pain and suffering and we proceeded to celebrate her life.
Its a natural life cycle, we live, then if we are lucky we die of old age, some are not so lucky. I think more focus should be on celebrating a life lived not mourning for weeks and cancelling any and all events.

I don't even get the cancellation of the last night of the proms, surely they could add some special celebratory music and have a two minutes silence. It's madness

The comments are heartening. Most people saying it shouldn't have been cancelled. I can't even put into words how fucked up I think this is.

Reminds me of the W H Auden poem used in four weds....

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
Prevent the dogs from barking with a juicy bone
Silence the pianos and with a muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplane circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message 'she' is dead
Put crepe bows around the white necks of the public doves
Let the traffic policeman wear black cotton gloves

Etc etc

The official guidance suggested strongly things should carry on, I believe. Round here (London) there are football games going on and birthday parties for all age groups on the Common. I went clubbing last night and bars and restaurants were open, as were theatres. Anyone closing things through choice right now in the leisure sector should lose the right to complain in winter about rising prices; after the last two years I am very surprised anything is being cancelled that doesn't have to be. Professional football I understand- that needs a police presence that the Met has to divert elsewhere and you can't just cancel London games.

Suicide prevention training on World suicide prevention day was cancelled because the Queen died!

Village show went ahead by popular demand but the organisers got abusive phone calls after the decision was announced. All the comments on the village Facebook page were wanting it to go ahead, not one against.

I really don't understand cancelling stuff. I get it for the day of the funeral so people can watch or pay respects, but this weekend for example are people actually just sitting at home mourning the Queen? Honestly, if they are that's a bit pathetic.

Haven’t had anything cancelled - went out to a club night last night and was at a local festival today and it’s on tomorrow!

I’ve tickets for a comedy show tomorrow and it’s not cancelled either

maybe it depends what it is or where you live but I’ve seen nothing cancelled around here yet

What? That doesn't even make sense. I haven't watched TV since Wednesday and things are still cancelled?

@ILoveAllRainbowsx did I say I was grieving? Did I say my view was that we should cancel everything? Nope. I didn't.

I said that everything was cancelled for 2 years so we can wait 2 weeks for things to not be cancelled. Pull your bloody selves together. So you can't run for one or 2 Sundays in the park? So your kids miss 1/2 weeks of football lessons? Christ. Take them out yourself!!

Yes we can just cancel London games - what London centric nonsense is that

This.

Cancelling Last Night of the Proms is bonkers. To me, it's a celebration of Britishness and what could be a more fitting tribute to the Queen?? I think it would have been very emotional.

This enforced mourning courtesy of the BBC is deeply unhealthy and weirdly at odds with its own programme content: apart from pre-recorded tribute programmes, everything else is recollections from various people about the time they met the queen and how lovely and jolly she was! Surely we should celebrate that, draw a line under the last era and move forward?

@takemetomybeach

Did I say that we couldn't wait? Of course we can, but why should we? We are adults and should be able to make our own decisions, not have them imposed on us by organisations for no good reason.

Things were cancelled for 2 years mainly to protect people dying which is a good reason.

Cancelling things for no good reason should not allowed.

If people want to mourn, I encourage them do whatever they need to do to show their respect - but 10 days of state-imposed misery on the whole country is the absolute last thing we need. We've just come out of two years of pandemic lockdowns into a war in Europe and a cost-of-living crisis.

I'd like to crack a smile at least once a week, please.

I am shocked, i expected to get a lot of hate. Ive just seen someone moaning about the ironman wales still be on, but they cancelled the kids one due to the queen dying. These events take a lot of planning and money to put on, cancelling shouldnt even be a thing. I think life has to go on!!