The last big TV funeral I watched and cared about was

[GreenPartyVoter]

Princess Di's.

Not even going to watch this one.

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. SHE WAS AGAINST LANDMINES!

WHAT AN AMAZING WOMAN!

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yep. She actually cared about people and used her position

to help them.

Such a rarity.

[KissMyAsscroft]

17. That was sarcasm.....

Being against landmines is sort of like being against meteors hitting the earth.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. And yet our gov't won't ban them. Go figure.

[KissMyAsscroft]

23. No one will ban them...

That's why railing against them is retarded. Like railing against machine guns or cluster bombs...armies will use whatever means are neccessary to win a war.

[CO Liberal]

2. Princess Di Was Universally Loved and Respected

Ronnie was not.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

6. Diane was not a politician, so of course she was loved by....

everyone, including myself. She made great use of her life promoting great social causes.

[DarkPhenyx]

3. I didn't even care about that one.

I'm still trying to figure out at exactly what point she became super mom. :shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. When she started speaking out against landmines and AIDS

it was a huge difference from what she could have done in her position.

[DarkPhenyx]

12. True.

It does ignore so many other things though.

[Indiana_Dem]

5. Yeah, me too. I miss Diana!

Now THAT was a funeral and something that brings chills to your spine (for those who were too young to witness Kennedy's funeral).

[kaitykaity]

8. Me too.

I have it on video, along with the interview on BBC
where her hair was all funky and she had that really bad
makeup on?

I was working nights when she died, and we all sat
at our computers listening to the funeral on the radio
and bawling. It was really something.

[VolcanoJen]

11. Ya know, I was camping that weekend.

I didn't get home until Monday or Tuesday; I think she died on a Friday or Saturday night?

At any rate, when I arrived back in the city, the first thing I did was stop at a convenience store to pick up some milk and supplies. While standing in the line, I noticed this huge photo of Diana on the paper, and thought "what in the world is a photo that big doing on the front page?" I picked it up, flipped the paper over, and learned she had died.

I immediately kinda freaked out. "When did Princess Diana die?!!??" I started asking everyone around me. "Where have you been?" the clerk asked me.

I was so sad, still am. I just adored her, especially in the years following her divorce.

Just another one of those "I always miss everything" posts. :D

[kaitykaity]

13. I was at home watching TV when

the anchor broke in and announced the accident.
Then it's like everything stopped when he announced
that she had died.

I think you got better of the deal. It truly was
heartbreaking.

[VolcanoJen]

14. Her brother gave the best eulogy of all time. Nothing will ever...

... be able to top it.

I guess I made up for missing the news by immersing myself in coverage after I came home. I still have my videotape of that touching funeral, too.

I'll never forget those flowers on the casket, from Harry, the ones with a card that read, simply, "Mummy."

:(

[kaitykaity]

15. Then it was like "whoa" when I saw

William and realized he was the spitting image
of his gorgeous mother.

You're right, that eulogy was powerful, but I
learned some things about that guy later that made
me wonder just how sincere he was.

[VolcanoJen]

20. Serious about Earl Spencer?

Do dish!!!

[kaitykaity]

22. Supposedly he wouldn't let her use that estate

(where she's buried) for her and the kids, and then they
didn't speak again before she died.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/22/1034561493013.html

[calimary]

9. I'm not bothering with the coverage, either. DU will keep me informed

sufficiently. My spouse will, also. He came out of our room laughing his head off, having watched some of the pomp and circumstance. In the midst of everybody hanging their heads and looking so somber, he says, somebody's cell phone went off - it was one of those cheery, customized, obnoxious rings that go on forever before you have the presence of mind to hit the right button and shut it up.

[Raenelle]

10. Me too. I had surgery the day she died, and I spent my week in bed

doing Diana 24/7. If a cable show quit talking about her, I switched the channel--all capped off of course by the funeral. I really wallowed in it.

[greekspeak]

16. You should have seen the pall hanging over the local gay bar that night

Lady Di was a classy dame.

[ronnykmarshall]

21. I lived in the Castro at the time (SF)

There was this beautiful memorial set up at 18th and Castro.

[genius]

19. Same here