Diana

[wimp]

I just dont get it.People crying for someone they never met or just know through TV. OK,some people may have met her and I can understand that but unless it's a good friend or relative you actually know,why all the crying.Diana was a lovely person but I dont know her enough to cry over.What do you think about people crying over a celebrity/personality that they have never met or known?

[anneasquith]

I don't miss her, I miss seeing the pictures of the clothes she wore !!!

[Ken4155]

I am not one who is easily moved to tears over someone's passing though i admit i spent a few minutes trying to stem the tears when Freddy Mercury died. I saw Queen just the twice and never met the man but, having been a fan since '73, it felt almost like losing a dear friend.

However, what i don't understand is how folk can say they are 'devastated' by a famous person's death - as one or two on here have said now and again (Terry Wogan springs to mind). The feeling of devastation surely belongs to the bereaved family and very close friends.

[mikey4444]

Still being petty over a typo then Baldric ?
More sniping from the sidelines.

[Baldric]

Hardly your average typo is it Mikey?

[mikey4444]

Baldric....your constant attempts at sniping is just childish, and it shows that you don't really have anything to say.

Bye bye Baldric.

[Baldric]

30 for 31 could well be a typo
2007 for 1997, no way.

[jourdain2]

I don't get it either. Let the woman lie in peace for Heaven's sake. Her family need normal, quiet mourning. All this is awful for them.
I hear that some want a national re-burying! NO. We are not living in a soap-opera - hang onto that . Be very glad when today is over. I don't mourn her, I didn't know her; so why all these people are over-hyping (supra-emoting?) is beyond me.

[mikey4444]

jourdain2....I think enough people on here today, have tried to explain their reactions to Diana's death.

[naomi24]

Every 31 August is the anniversary of her death but I don't remember being swamped with all the reminiscences, replays of events, and mass outpourings of grief to this extent before. Perhaps I have just forgotten, but I do wonder how long it will continue. Next year, the year after, the 25th anniversary, the 30th? Time to stop.

[choux]

I agree entirely with Mr Serpell. I hope he continues in his post with the BBC.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4840324/BBC-obituary-editor-says-bored-Diana-coverage.html
If only the media would stop feeding the vulnerable public with all manner of programmes, articles, newspaper supplements and the like I believe we would be free of the manipulated and over-extended grief.

[ummmm]

Yesterday would have been my granddads 90th birthday so I'm never going to forget the date of her death.

I did cry when she died but I also cried when David Bowie died.

We cry at films even though we know it's fiction. Something touches us emotionally that we have no control over.

I also cry when I see other people cry.

[jackthehat]

Her death became a 'global event' and there will be many countries around the world who will also be reflecting upon, and marking, this 20th anniversary.

[Smowball]

I watched the documentary lastnight about the day she died and it did upset me and I did cry. Not because I knew her, or miss her, but because she was such a people person, and she just adored her children, so to see their faces as they walked behind her coffin was so sad. They had lost this wonderful mother in such a tragic way and you could just see that their lives would never be the same again.