Jade Goody

[JustJodi]

I presume that all the arrangements Jade had planned took a while to put in place.All those vehicles she wanted have to be available on the same day, for example. There might also have been a post mortem and maybe tomorrow was the most convenient day for her family, some might need more time to attend the funeral.

Ok granted that may be the case, but they are stringing this out a bit..........how long are those bodies supposed to be kept in the cooler ??? or is she supposed to be cremated ?? Regardless of the CONVEINCE,, pleaseeeee Jack and Jades mum are both UNEMPLOYED,, those two are the key mourners ( since it has been said that the boys are in Oz with Jeff) the others are irrelevant, or are they selling tickets for each butt that is put in the pew??? sorry I find this OUTRAGEOUS,,,and EXTREMELLY of bad taste.

[Siobhan]

Funerals in the UK normally take a week or more after the person dies.. in Ireland it is 3 days or less

[Trinity]

Funerals in the UK normally take a week or more after the person dies.. in Ireland it is 3 days or less

My personal experience has always been 4 -6 days.

[alan45]

25 Grand for a funeral FFS. I know the costs of burial etc are extortionate in London but Albins are having a laugh surely. The average funeral should cost somewhere in the region of £2500 - £3000. Then again I suppose it will be like her wedding, a tottally over the top Chav affair. I suppose she will have to have a Horse Drawn hearse and no doubt Max Clifford has sold the rights to some trashy tabloid. The whole thing will be a media circus for Z Listers (I expect the Poison Dwarf will get in on the act). I think its disgraceful and an appalling waste of money. If thats the type of funeral they want I certainly dont think a Church is the place to have it. They would have been betting going to some pub or nightclub for it.

I really do not know what the delay is for other than to generate more publicity and more money for Mr Clifford and the tabloids. As Shiv has already said most funerals in Ireland are held in about three days and even thats after a postmortem has taken place.

Not only did Ms Goody crave publicity in her short life but it looks like she is trying to gain it from the grave.

[sindydoll]

Funerals in the UK normally take a week or more after the person dies.. in Ireland it is 3 days or less

My personal experience has always been 4 -6 days.

unless its a bank holiday or their is suspicious circumstances its usually 4-6 days its never 2 weeks

[Abigail]

There wouldn't be a PM for Jade as she had terminal cancer. The cause of death is already known.

Unless there are a lot of people dying in the area and a great demand for undertakers, there is no reason why she shouldn't have been buried before now.

I see no reason why her funeral should cost £25k, other than more publicity, nor why it should take two weeks for her to be buried.

What exactly is she getting for her £25k? A solid gold coffin? Nobody will care after the funeral what the casket looked like or how many cars were there.

[alan45]

Nobody will care after the funeral what the casket looked like or how many cars were there.

Nobody will care about Jade Goody two weeks after her funeral either. In fact I dont really care about her now. There are hundreds of women young and old dying every week from cancer who did not make a song and dance about it. Their families didnt spend 25 grand on a funeral nor a million quid on a wedding. Most of them ask for donations in lieu of flowers to be given to a Cancer charity so that others may be helped.

[Chloe O'brien]

The reason for the delay is for the publicity no-other reason. Usually funerals take place 4 or 5 days after death, even when it happens during holiday time. My mum died on 30 Dec and she was buried on 5 Jan and as for the costs because Jackie and Jack are unemployed the government would cover most of the costs for the funeral so there is no need to go to all that expense as I have said before why not donate the money to buying new equipement or employing extra caner nurses. What are they going to do next declare 22 March a national day of mourning.

[Kim]

When my Gran died of cancer she had specified the undertaker that she wanted to deal with her funeral arrangements. We had to wait 2 weeks for her funeral as the undertaker she'd chosen couldn't do it sooner. As Jade had made a lot of her wishes clear, maybe she had chosen her own too and they didn't think she should get priority over others just because she was a celebrity.

[alan45]

Albins are a large firm of Funeral Directors. They are more than capable of doing 20 funerals a day so I dont think this was the cause of the delay.