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.

Agreed.

No. I think the media are a bit OTT with some of the mind numbing drivel that they are publishing/broadcasting. But everyone I have spoken to is much more measured. The media always seem to find people among the thousands to interview who are only able to express how they feel in terms of the stuff they see from the media.
For me, I am sad about The Queen dying, and it has brought up feelings of grief from losing my own Mum last year which is probably deepening those feelings of sadness. I have kept up with events over the past week. It is an historic occasion and I find the ceremonial aspects fascinating. I understand other people being sad about this and wanting to pay their respects in some way as The Queen was an undeniably substantial figure in national life and identity. Doesn’t mean everyone’s gone mad or hysterical though.

I lost my mum earlier this year. I don't think her death has anything to do with the queen though. She was my mum, the Queen was nothing to me and I'm sick of hearing people saying it's the same. It is absolutely not the same to me.

It's a historic occasion and a loss that comes at a time when many families are already grieving because of Covid losses. There doesn't seem to be any hysteria. Obviously there are some people who want to pretend history isn't important and others who hate any sign of a collective spirit because they prefer stoking divisions. But as PPs said the response to Diana was hysteria. The response to the Queen has been much more subdued and respectful.
The hysteria around Diana still exists. That is completely bizarre to me.

I considered going, but the long queues made me decide not to.
The thing is, although it is not unexpected that a woman of 96 would die before long, she has been the Queen for my entire life. So it is quite normal to feel sorrow at the passing of such a long life, and I think we can agree, whether you like the Monarchy or not, that the late Queen had dedicated her life to the service of the country.
It has often been the case during my lifetime that people would stop and bow, as a funeral cortege went past, when they did not know the person at all. That would also be showing respect. This practise seems to have ended now.
So, People want to go and show some kind of respect for the passing of her life, in a way that is considered respectful for our day.
Does it matter to you? You do not have to go.
That said, I personally find the total entire TV coverage of all the 'mourning' events over the top. I also want to hear about other news, (Ukraine, etc)

I don’t like the hierarchical nature of all of it. It looks like the Royal Family actually believe in all of it. IMO the Queen was significant because she represented the UK for so long, and her presence was somehow reassuring, but she wasn’t intrinsically better than anyone else.

Yes! I cannot understand people queuing for hours to see a coffin

Not me personally but the 24/7 coverage (with many a repeated moment) is all a bit much now.

I haven’t seen any signs of hysteria, naturally the focus of the media is on London: the queues to see the coffin, the footage of the Royals on walkabouts, Charles’s visit to Wales and interviews with the general public. Out of the 60 odd million people in the U.K. the focus is on a small percentage of the population. Yes some will be tearful, sad, bereft even but the majority of us are just getting on with life.
Went out to meet friends today and apart from a few comments about the Funeral and where we’d be on Monday it was business as usual.
Even the news coverage of it all is lessening, other news is being shown, yes it’ll ramp up again on Monday but only to be expected. We only watch the highlights on the news, even then not always.

Most people who I speak to aren't too bothered.

You only see a select few on TV

It's interesting to watch though,

I can't understand queuing for hours to see the coffin or even laying flowers. I know others do, but I don't see who benefits from it.

Yes, I am in my late fifties and remember people bowing to hearses and you would never interrupt or overtake a funeral cortège . Also very common for relatives to view the body . There seems a lot less respect now .

No.
it'd all rather sedate and managed
mass hysteria was Diana's death
people really were unhinged then

Not doing those things doesn't necessarily equate to a lack of respect though.

Media has been a bit much at times, easy to ignore, but overall no.

Interesting footage of the long queues for seeing King George V1 lying in state in 1952. www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/incredible-colour-footage-shows-king-28005457

sensationalism is a thing for a reason

Makes people click
Makes people watch
Makes people buy memorabilia
Makes people start endless threads on it
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Yes, see the sad wankers who turned out to boo the man who he just lost his mother.

Some people are behaving like animals.

Nope
Diana was mad
Despite the queue I think people's reactions have been quite understandable her death is a monumental moment for our country and I feel properly unsettled by it.
We will never see her like again and deserves the respect people want to show

Not really. There's a tiny % of OTT royalists but most people are queueing to 'have been there' or to post on their social media accounts.

Aka Mourn Hub

As an irish person looking in, it seems ye have al lost your minds

Norwich Council closing cycle paths for the mourning period is just mind boggling

I'm in London and I know only one person who went to Buckingham palace to lay flowers. No one I know has gone to join the queue.

My favourite so far was a bus I saw today. In place of the route number and destination on the display-space on its front, it had "Queen Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022" on it.

Which is not just daft, it's actively a nuisance to anyone who wants to know what bus it is and where it is going.

People still do this in Ireland.

The media has gone mad. My day to day has been totally normal.