Will you go to see The Queen lying in state?

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I plan to go next week from the midlands, to oh my respects. How many of us are planning the journey? I’m considering going late in the evening as it should be open 23 hours a day according to the news.

People will camp on pavements for a front row seat at everything. Processions, services etc. There will be enormous screens for them. Parks full of people.

And restricted public transport.

We were discussing this today (colleague is married to someone who was on call today) and the queue is supposed to snake over the river isn’t it? I was hoping she had said ‘och no, I don’t want that…’

Why is this necessary? I bet they use a dummy because there's no way!

Ah, I dont know why I kind of imagined a Lenin type situation. Still a no from me though, if its a closed coffin she might not even be in there.

It is traditional. Why do you think they’d use a dummy?

Nope.

Nah it'll be her body but the coffin will be shut and draped with the appropriate flag (think its a flag but material anyway) and there'll be armed guards and other security measures in place.

Grief tourism. No thanks.

Restricted public transport - you think they'll close the immediate nearest stations? Thing is that will cause bottlenecks at the next one up.

No

I find it a really weird idea.

I think maybe I will want to sit with the body for a bit when close loved ones die, but where I can see them and hold a hand or plant a last kiss on a cheek. I have no desire to go and look at a box with a dead stranger inside.

Pointless. Far better to light a candle in a CoE church somewhere no matter what religion or none that you are. She was the Head of the CoE remember.

That's what I'll do and will remember all my own deceased family and friends also.

No, you massive oddball.

Only if the royal family promise to come and traipse past my coffin one day. Equality and all that.

I genuinely don't understand why anyone would do this

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It is not grief tourism. What an odd thread. It is actual emotion and paying respects. For many people it is important to mark her death, and this is one way to do it. I cannot get my head round why anyone would think that paying your respects is direspectful to her or her family. Quite the opposite.

@Christmasiscominghohoho in my opinion, which I'm allowed to voice on here, it is something that should be given up. There are plenty of traditions that have been retired over the years. Putting a dead body on public display should be one of them. In my opinion.

Dd lives in Windsor and works for RCT so I might go next week with DS to lay flowers and pay respect

No, I find the idea of it wrong. I really don’t understand why people do it and the reasons they give make no sense to me.

Watching BBC footage earlier seeing people lay flowers, fair enough, but then they were turning around whilst someone took a photo of them. Maybe one for Facebook later?

Every time something like this happens, I dislike people more and just feel a million miles away from what society has become.

I talked to someone who works in the House of Commons about this a few years ago and the plan at that time worked on the basis that the queue will be several miles long, taking up to 24 hours to pass the coffin.

NO. Why would I do that!

I wouldn't consider going but I don't think it's weird that people do. If they were partying in the line that would be weird, but if they sincerely want to pay their respects that is fine.

No