Bali Boys To Have Open Funerals

[icyfroth]

Heard on the news tonight both the Chan and Sukamaran families are holding open funerals for Andrew and Myuran.

Andrew Chan's funeral will be at the Hillsong Church, opposite where I work,  on Friday.

I believe Sukarmarans funeral will be televised.

Wouldn't you think the families would have given their boys a dignified funeral and not made a media circus out of it?

The media will be in a frenzy.

[cherry*135]

These radio announcers like to push their own personal opinions don't they? I don't listen to any of  them but commenting after  reading/listening to the two mentioned in this thread.

Ross Greenwood - money, finance, business.. How do funerals fit into that?

[bsal6160]

The scum remarks are richly deserved for those who try to peddle/deal illegal drugs not matter what. Do you think they gave a hoot about how many other people their scum peddling drugs might have killed, I think not, all they cared about was the money they were trying make. And this tripe about being reformed...anyone on death row would make all kinds of claims about being reformed just to escape the death sentence.

Dont even get me started on that low-life lawyer who is now trying to blame the AFP. He said he warned the AFP about the drug peddling scum and the AFP warned the Bali police. Well why didnt he warn the scum bags not to try and peddle the drugs in the first place?

[azureline**]

They made no claims about being reformed.
Their lives are an open book so perhaps some need to read it.
They were executed and now their families are burying them.
The lawyer had nothing to do with either of these men so why would he have told them anything?

[nicnacs_4u]

In a few words who cares?
IMO

[ladydeburg]

Humanity is what is missing from this whole sorry saga.

The boys were young  and probably deserved life in prison.  What they did not deserve was  the last few years of mental torture they were put through.

The parents and families were tortured along with them and are left with the unthinkable memories of saying goodbye to their sons knowing they would never see them again and having to imagine their last minutes strapped to a cross facing death.

I know there's a lot on here who couldn't care less and are glad they got the bullet but the majority on here have the humanity to look further than the crime and have the decency to feel sympathey for the families.

The cold hearted  comment about using the funerals to get money??? well nothing appropriate can be said about that, no humanity there.

[nicnacs_4u]

I have humanity for those families whose son or daughter got mixed up with taking drugs because of those 2 ferals..it so easy to hear and read that they had reformed but still they refused to divulge who the top knobs were.. Does anyone think their families have any empathy for those who lost their lives to drugs..I don't think so😣

[azureline**]

It's not the fault of their families that they didn't tell who recruited them. They did say their families lives are at risk if they divulge that information, which is probably credible given the extent of drug smuggling here.

I have no empathy for anyone who chooses to use drugs. No none holds them down and forces them........

[***super_nova***]

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@nicnacs_4u wrote:
I have humanity for those families whose son or daughter got mixed up with taking drugs because of those 2ferals..it so easy to hear and read that they had reformed but still they refused to divulge who the top knobs were.. Does anyone think their families have any empathy for those who lost their lives to drugs..I don't thinkso😣

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I did empathise with the families; I felt sick when they were jostled by the media, and the last 10 year must have been unimaginably stressful and absolutely horrific for them.  I could understand that when they talked to media they were hoping publicity might help their sons.  But now, planing the funerals as a giant public affair is in a bad taste, and nothing but publicity seeking. 

[azureline**]

So, anyone who chooses an open funeral is bad taste?

My mum's was an open funeral, in a very large Church, yet there were so many people there, some had to stand outside. Some were people who knew her that we didn't know..........

It never has occurred to my family to have private funerals.......

I don't believe the families are publicity seeking at all...... there were many people involved in the campaign to stop the executions, perhaps they have had some idea that they need to accomodate larger numbers for that reason?

[***super_nova***]

Your mum was not a criminal, I presume?  Of-course, you would have open funeral at church that would accomadate all relatives and friends.  Having funeral for these 2 men in venues that accommodate thousands is another story.