Portsmouth protest against funeral home

[HungryHelga]

www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/hundreds_sign_petition_against_portsmouth_funeral_home_bid_1_3423985

People are protesting and other people are saying they are stupid. But I am not sure I would want a chapel of rest next door to me. I already have enough trouble reassuring my DS that zombies and ghosts aren't real after he has seen something scary on TV or had a scary story read at school.

Oh yes, ... don't chapel of rest employees dress the deceased up in ballgowns and chains, wheel them around the streets on carts and go a-bothering of the neighbours when the moon is full? Don't they have scary pictures of ghosties and zombies in the windows purely to put the wind up nervous children?

OR

Aren't they mostly very quiet, respectable operations with low-key fascias and a huge emphasis on discretion and privacy? Maybe the people of Portsmouth should grow up....

I wouldn't mind, I'd quite like quieter neighbours.

These people are totally pathetic, there is not going to be anything to see, no one will be wheeling gurneys full of uncovered corpses up and down the street. Lots of people live next to cemetaries! Perhaps they should all get up petitions too in case their children see a funeral going on. And let's ban hearses as it's too obvious there are zombies bodies in them. Stick 'em in an old builders van.

So are they going to have large glass windows with bodies on display?

Or is it perhaps...just a thought...going to be like living next to any old church or hospital where there will obviously be dead bodies from time to time?

LOL what a bunch of saddos!

I grew up opposite a cemetery. Sometimes they took corpses in boxes in there, dug a big hole and then buried them. No zombies, no corpses on display, no big deal. The only thing you need to be aware of when living near such a place is the bereaved. We always closed our curtains/stopped and bowed our heads if a procession was going by.

Some people are very very stupid. And very afraid of their own mortality. My children's bedroom window overlooks a graveyard. Hasn't caused a problem yet.

These place cause a lot of additional traffic so yes it is a nuisance. It is not the dead bodies, it is the live ones that drive cars that are the problem.

Traffic doesn't seem to be the principal issue beta. They think there will be dead bodies trundling past their little darlings on the high street.

I've just been reading the comments underneath the article and it seems it is a main road with a pub/takeaways etc, not some quiet little backwater that's going to be suddenly inundated with traffic. I like the way the 'protesters' in the photo have dragged their kids along. What with that and the posters everywhere about 'dead people' I think the residents are doing a pretty good job of frightening their children without any additional help!

Some of those comments are hilarious btw.

What is wrong with people?

Childish, squeamish and totally detached from reality.... See the OP never came back

Ahahahaha! Gawd ain't people bonkers?

Have laughed out loud at this thread. And I've got a bitch I'd a hangover so well done all!

I've been to Portsmouth. Maybe, rather than burying the dead, they should prop them up in bus shelters. Make the place a bit more lively....

Wasn't it in Portsmouth that a vigilante gang attacked a paediatrician?

but they are happy to have a pub on the corner of their street ?

Yes Shirley it was.

To be fair to Portsmouth, the comments below the article suggest that plenty of local people think the protesters are being ridiculous.

at ?I don?t want my grandchildren looking at dead bodies.'

I wonder who the woman is in the picture with the short skirt, sunglasses and fur coat pulled up over her face?

Don't know, but she doesn't seem to want to be recognised.

without sun glasses and fur coat

That is as bonkers as it is sad.
Are children shielded that much that they can't have a viewing shop in the street?
As a child, me and my friends would hang around the local mortuary trying to see in.

My house is literally right next to a funeral Directors. They have a private parking spot right next to our house. Several times a week they will unload a body from the back of a black ambulance in this parking spot.

Doesn't bother us at all. Can't believe anyone would protest a funeral home. Death is a part of life surely? Most people in the funeral business are so nice and kind and doing such an important job. Why give them a hard time?

Fucking ridiculous!

It's not the dead you have to worry about, it's the living that should give you the heebie jeebies.

My ideal home would have a cemetery on one side and a chapel of rest on the other.

how stupid!