Is the UK suffering from mass hysteria?

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The Queen's passing is sad and seismic and the funeral will be a special occasion.

However, people genuinely seem to have gone mad.

Yes AND manipulated grief AND brainwashed by the same old archaic and outdated pompous nonsense that has kept the proletariat (subjects if you prefer?!) in their places for hundreds of years...It would appear that great swathes of the population are deliriously happy to go along with this overblown facade and most seem totally powerless to resist being drawn in? They have unbelievably volunteered to stand overnight, outside in the cold, for hours and hours to eventually get to deferentially trot past a coffin covered in a flag containing the body of an elderly human woman - well hopefully it's in there!!! My mind was way way passed boggling days ago!!!!

If taking your mums ashes in a box to see a box isn't madness I don't know what is. All the mourning, all the closing down /cancelling important services already behind with Covid like GP and hospital operations isn't bonkers again I don't know what is.

In a word yes!! Absolutely bonkers

Oh ................. and why have we no money to pay those striking for a legitimate cost of living pay rise?............yet can put billions into this

If taking your mums ashes in a box to see a box isn't madness I don't know what is.

I'd need to dig my mum up and have her coffin cremated in order for her ashes to pay their respects.

Wonder if anyone has considered this?

Don’t think it’s hysteria, more a grief competition. “I’m more grief stricken than you because….”
A neighbour once told me she was devastated and felt part of a very sad accident that happened about 20 miles away in which several people died. She felt part of it because her DP had once supplied a cake to the establishment where it happened. Competitive grief.

This!

Media led “enforced grieving”. A form of brainwashing. The same thing happened after Diana died, You weren’t allowed to say anything othet than what a saint she was.

She wasn’t, of course. 🙄

and no, you don't know her. no more than you know anybody you see on the telly. People didn't know Churchill but he lay in state. The lying-in-state lasted from Wednesday 27 January to 6:00 a.m. on 30 January,[31] during which Westminster Hall was kept open for 23 hours daily. An hour was reserved for cleaning. The queue was most times more than one mile long, and the waiting time was about three hours;[26] 321,360 people came to pay their respects.

It's traditional here in rural Scotland to go to funerals of people you don't know well. It's to pay respects and support the family.

Zebedee55 - But people don't speak ill of the dead. You could say the same about anyone who's passed away, not just royalty.

Haven’t seen any hysteria but I think ,as usual, that the media have gone completely OTT. I m watching odd reports every now and then. I don’t understand people queuing for 16 hours to walk past but each to their own, I m happy to pay my respects to the queen sitting on my comfy sofa with a glass of wine or a cuppa and a good view of what’s happening

no, i dont see excess grief now
there is no shock and real sadness.

yes it was good to take a break and watch the last leg last night!

i can think of three occasions in the past few years when commentators like OP failed to realise that theirs was a minority view. Firstly the SNP lost their referendum, then the Remainers lost and now shouty anti monarchists have all been gobsmacked that the silent majority exists and is in fact, a majority of the population

Agreed. 1997 saw mass hysteria and public keening, whereas 2022 sees thousands of people aware that they’re witnessing the death of the longest reigning British monarch and an historic event. They’re paying their respects to a sovereign who has given 70 years of service.

We won’t see this again in our lifetimes.

👏

The story is history, and it belongs to us all.

Watching the TV and media you would think that everyone had gone mad. However in day to day life hardly anyone has mentioned it and is just getting on with life so I don't know who these thousands of people in London are really, no one in my circle

Every news outlet, every main to channel, every electronic screen, bus tickets, train tickets. Estate agent windows, fucking mumsnet, every app, every website, practically every bloody social media post…

it IS bloody hard to ignore it

I honestly don’t know what that means in relation to sandwiches being left from as if from an imaginary talking bear.

Yes! I am not a royalist in the slightest but respect people's right to mourn if they feel they had some sort of connection to the Queen. However, some people are just behaving in the most ludicrous way! Centre Parcs is one of the worst examples! I for one will never book with them if that's how they treat paying guests. Also, I am disgusted and concerned at the arrests being made of people peacefully protesting. I found it ironic that the young boy who heckled Andrew was arrested while Andrew has yet to experience the same fate. I've actually came off of social media until this has all calmed down a bit as it feels a bit over the top.

found it ironic that the young boy who heckled Andrew He wasn't a young boy. He was an eejit who upset people coming to pay their respects

Actually it's pretty much impossible to ignore it. It's everywhere.

I've been avoiding watching tv, listening to the radio, and even social media because it's insane.

The queen, who was 96, a decent age, not tragically young, has died. Her body has been bounced around the uk so that people can walk past her coffin. It's ludicrous. Back in the Middle Ages this may have been acceptable, possibly even necessary (?) but surely we've evolved beyond this now??

So yes, the uk seems to have gone stark raving bonkers.

I have deliberately avoided the media coverage and if I wasn't on MN I wouldn’t know about "The Queue", people leaving marmalade sandwiches to rot in the street or any other hysterical nonsense that's reportedly happening. No one I know IRL is talking about it. The Queen hasn't been mentioned at work since the day of her death and even then it was just an initial "have you heard?" before moving swiftly on. It hasn't been mentioned when we've seen friends or family. I don't know anyone IRL who feels compelled to stand in a queue for 20 hours to walk past a strangers coffin. I genuinely believe most people are just getting on with their lives without giving it much thought.

The UK is an Island inhabited by slightly crazy people - nothing new!

I don’t mind the queuing if that what you want to do but why does it have to be televised and on more than one channel.