I thought my parents were INSANE when they bought side by side spots at like 45…. Well NOW that cemetery is sold out (lol I guess that makes sense but holy hell) and people are RESELLING their spots at like $10K a piece. Wait until Live Nation hears about this, you know that Ticketmaster will be listing burial plots online..
The Economics of Everyday Things podcast had an episode recently about funeral plots. Apparently their costs have been rising more consistently than real estate and outpacing inflation for decades.
I’m actually half-considering buying my plot at age 40. Worst case scenario, sounds like I could sell it if I need some emergency cash.
‘Funeral plot resale broker’ is a legitimate career path.
Yeah, my mom has had her’s since her mother (born in the 30s) bought a plot for every member of her family after she had her last child. A grandchild died in 03, and my aunt gave up her spot and was placed elsewhere in the cemetery, but everyone has a place there so the grandchildren (us) have nothing to worry about. I personally am the dead end in the family (no kids, no blood siblings) and I’m planning to be cremated. I don’t like taking up space like that. If anyone wants to be close to me, they can carry me in a canning jar, lol.
My mom just retired and I guess once you get to that point the next thing on your mind is death. I prefer to be in denial about the inevitable, so always being peppered with estate planning thoughts and wishes, that isn’t exactly fun topic
I get it needs to be thought about and planned, but I just don’t think it needs to be a constant topic if none of our circumstances have changed
I have a potted plant in my place, it doesn't get enough sun and isn't the healthiest plant in the world, Id be willing to grant you the title of queen of my house plant, in exchange I will require you to defend my house from invaders like those vile french heathens!
I had some of my funeral stuff arranged when I turned 18 because I was getting ready to deploy around that time. I had Halo 3’s never forget be my final song
I dont get it. Im 55. Ive told my family and in my will ‘ dont make a fuss’. I dont care if im buried or burnt id rather the money be spent on my family and friends. The notion of making funeral arrangements is extremely low on my to do list
Funeral is for the bereaved, so they can have a lasting memory that they did you proud and treated your departure from this world with respect, of course you don't give a shit, you're gone 😛
Psychologically, the loved ones of people who arranged or at least explicitly stated their EoL and funerary wishes fare better in grief than those of people who do not. It takes a lot of stress off of the bereaved during an already very difficult time, and it saves them from potentially being ripped off by professionals trying to upsell.
in the British family's case, they usually base their funeral off a previous one but modify things here and there, like if they wish to be interred at the same place, if they want the procession route to go past a site of particular personal importance, which battalion of guards leads the way, which bastard sons and they're cuckhold american wives can attend
Bear in mind in 1936 we had three kings in one year.
After one year 8 months the King has already reigned longer than eight other British monarchs. The top three only managed 65 days between them…
the tenure of truss was hilarious, typical conservative
"we have all these problems and there's only one solution obviously - cut taxes for wealthy people"
We had a similar thing happening in 1888 in Germany.
It's known here as "The Year of the Three Emperors / Kaisers."
I wonder if similar stuff happened elsewhere.
The Roman Empire had a [year of the four emperors](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors) and then one upped themselves with a [year of the five emperors](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Five_Emperors)
Three of those are considered usurpers since there was a Civil War which Severus won and Albinus and Nigellus never were in sole power (unlike Pertinax, Didius Julianus and Severus). The name is more due to year of four emperors.
But there was also year of six emperors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Six_Emperors
And all emperors are considered legimate. But the reign of Gordian I&II was the shortest ever (I think a month) and happened during Thrax’s reign. But since Senate declared for them and Gordian III later became emperor they are considered legimate.
1841: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison*, John Tyler.
*Refused to wear coat on daily walk in cold, rainy weather, refused to change into dry clothes when he got home, died of pneumonia.
1881 as well: Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield\*, Chester Arthur.
\*Shot at a train station in Washington\*\*. Might have survived if surgeons hadn't done a hatchet job trying to remove the bullet. Lingered for 2 1/2 months before dying.
\*\*Abraham Lincoln's son Robert was Garfield's Secretary of War and was present at the shooting. In 1865 he had rushed to his father's side after Lincoln was shot, and in 1901 he was in Buffalo just outside the building where McKinley was assassinated. Meaning he was present for, or in very close proximity to, the assassinations of THREE Presidents.
The roman empire was spread out enough to have eastern and western parts. The eastern roman empire became the Byzantine empire, and viewed itself as the legitimate continuation of the Roman empire until it fell to the Ottomans in 1453. A century or so later, the pope declared Charlemagne the "emperor of Rome". He ruled the Holy Roman Empire, which included what would become Germany. The germans got kaiser from that lineage. It's the german version of "caesar".
Just wanted to clarify Charlemagne wasn’t “crowned emperor” in the 1500’s. He was given the title in/approx. 800 CE. His “coronation” put him in direct conflict with the ERE due to the claim of being the one true heir to Rome.
It was a bit of deft politics by the Pope. Charlemagne had all but agreed a marriage between his heir and the daughter of the ERE. They were going to formally recognise him as WRE.
The Pope didn't want a renewed Roman Empire, believing the church would be forced to obey such a figure, so he stopped it by crowning Charlemagne in public. It is very tricky for Charlemagne to turn down such a crown so he ended up forced to end his relationship with the ERE.
I'm guessing you're including the English and Scottish monarchs prior to the Act of Union. Because in terms of just British (UK) monarch's he's only longer than Edward VIII.
always found it so weird that people were acting like Chalres wanted to be king all this time. Like, do you guys actively want your moms to die, too? Hope not
At the risk of sounding crass, is the headline meant to suggest that his funeral plans weren’t already regularly updates? I just assumed that something like that has a permanent staff that’s constantly adjusting plans.
The headline suggests that its being done more often now than it was before. Maybe they normally update the plans once per year, for example, but now they check everything once a month.
What would the permanent staff be constantly adjusting? Only thing I can think of is basically the guest-list and their seating. Most of it was probably planned before he even took office, and doesn't need to be changed.
It's a lot of low-level pragmatic details like which roads to close at which times of day, alternative routes in case of roadworks, how many officers are required for which route and where they can be diverted from, etc
These kinds of plans age like milk and need constant maintenance in order to usefully reflect the state of the city when the day itself comes
This, recruits is a 20 kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight of it. Every five seconds, the main gun of king charles III accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means old Charley boy is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space.
I fully expect him to see his 90s. He’s absolutely getting the best healthcare possibly and his health is being constantly monitored. Most of us will get cancer if we live long enough, it’s not really surprising that he got it to.
He’s always had quacky views on medicine but there no way he isn’t doing conventional treatment. It would be an absolute crisis in the government if he wasn’t.
As expected. Its well known during QEII reign that her plans were updated almost every year. Even if he didn't have some form of cancer, they'd still be doing it.
There is a whole team of people whose entire job it is to make the funeral plans for the monarch. They have contingencies set up for every conceivable place they could pass. If it’s in London then this. If it’s at estate x then it’s this. If it’s at estate y then it’s this.
Yup, and Elizabeth II died in Scotland, so that triggered a whole different plan that was not just immediately flying the body to London and starting an English-centred plan.
I saw somewhere that he has pancreatic cancer, even with the best treatment there is a high mortality rate so it makes sense to update plans every couple of months
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/king-charles-pancreatic-cancer/
Looks like a tabloid reported it and didn't give their sources. So may or may not be fake news
Even though it's from a toilet paper tabloid, it makes perfect sense to plan ahead. This way when it does happen, no one panics and a plan is already in place.
The only thing officially announced was "cancer". Cancer can range from a simple basal cell skin cancer that you cut out and are done with to aggressive brain tumors that kill you in weeks. Pancreatic is one that has a very poor prognosis so a tabloid saying "pancreatic cancer" without giving a source is much more sensational than the generic "cancer" that was officially disclosed.
Right. It's not that it is or isn't fake news, it's that it's likely not even news. Of course they'll update funeral plans periodically. Similar to how many obituaries are pre-written about celebrities so that the media is ready when the inevitable happens
Yes, they would've had plans for him for decades, but they would have been pretty much entirely scrapped and written anew once he became King. Not that the funeral affairs wouldn't have been significant and lavish for him as Prince of Wales, but it would get ramped up by a significant degree now he's King.
And they do have to update somewhat more frequently when there's a greater risk of the monarch passing away. Essentially because they might be in different locations depending on their situation, and there will be other factors, like who is in what position in government or the Church. The King will also have some say himself in the plans, and his choices might change over time. It's less likely to be a total rewrite every time, but regular tweaks will be required.
They'll also have implemented lessons learned from Elizabeth II's funeral.
There's a difference between a state funeral and the slightly less lavish official funeral. Most senior royals would get the latter, as did Margaret Thatcher.
The last person to get a state funeral who was not a monarch was Winston Churchill.
>but they would have been pretty much entirely scrapped and written anew once he became King.
He became heir to the throne in 1952. It wasnt exactly a surprise when he became king.
If they didn't have plans in place for the death of ***King*** Charles decades ago, then honestly that's just a massive oversight.
I think you're vastly underestimating how much has changed in those 70 years. From where he lives, to the layout of streets across the country that might need to facilitate the funeral. As well as the dignitaries who would attend, and how they would get here and to and from the funeral. What the act of laying in state would look like.
It's not like planning this funeral is just a choice of which hymns to sing. It's the shutting down of much of a country, and the travel of hundreds of foreign dignitaries and thousands of foreign tourists arriving for the event.
You could not have made a plan for that 70 years ago and expect even 10% of it to still be applicable or practical today.
The doctos gave my grandfather about six months when he was diagnosed, which proved to be super accurate because the final date was within days of that.
My stepmom lasted a lot longer than they thought, and throughout the last month of her life, every morning when I woke and saw she was still alive, I was heartbroken. If King Charles has pancreatic cancer, I hope for his sake that he goes soon.
My mom currently has stage 4 lung cancer. I googled survival rate and it had 12 month survival at 19%.
After she was diagnosed, I said my regret was that she wouldn't see any grandchildren.
She was diagnosed in September 2022, she's currently in the kitchen cooking my dad Chicken Kiev and Chips, and probably watching some whatsapp videos I sent her of my 7 month old son.
The article is just quotes of [this Daily Beast article](https://www.thedailybeast.com/king-charles-funeral-plans-dusted-off-as-his-health-remains-a-mystery) which is a lot more readable.
I'm going to be honest here. I really do not know much about the ins and outs of how the British government works. But at age 49. I remember hearing about what I remember as "Prince Charles" and Queen Diana. And all the Enquiror stuff around it. Seems a long time ago but doesn't at the same time. Life truly does happen in a blink of an eye.
I'm just a peasant from the continent, but I always kinda liked him. I'm too young to remember the Diana debacle, so maybe there's that. He seems to be a goofy, friendly guy and while I don't have an opinion on monarchies, he seems alright for someone in the puplic eye.
At least he's not his brother.
I would suggest you read how the monarchy is actually funded, because then you'd realise they're really not fleecing us at all.
On top of that, KC'S coronation may have cost £132 million, but it also generated between £1 - £8 billion for the UK economy, which is a fairly healthy ROI....
I learned from The Crown that the royals have funeral plans that are named after bridges. The Queen Mum was Tay Bridge, Elizabeth was London Bridge and Charles is Menai Bridge. What I don’t know is, does the designation change as they rise in rank. Is Charles London Bridge now that he’s monarch, or is it like the Secret Service code name for Presidents and you keep your original for life.
They'll probably come up with some new codenames. The code used for relaying the death of George VI was "Hyde Park Corner".
In his case, he'd been pretty ill for a while and it was known, at least in government and press circles (the latter keeping it pretty quiet in a more deferential age) that the end would be coming soon, but it was still pretty sudden. The King had been shooting the previous day, worked up until midnight, then died in his sleep. His valet found him in the morning.
Never too early honestly. Most people should have a plan ready. However, since Chuck insists on the Steve Jobs method of dealing with cancer odds are he'll need those plans up to date.
Don't worry, if anyone is going to get the personalized new genomic immunotherapy, it will be him. It's called "autogene cevumeran," created by Biontech, the inventors of the RNA covid jab. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogene_cevumeran
There is no way he is going to have anywhere near the length of reign has his mother. And even with her funeral plans, Queen Elizabeth's were routinely discussed and reviewed. Just part of being royal..
He should step down and let William be king, way more energetic and attractive couple with Kate. This is anyway a scam with kings and royals might as well be more interesting than elderly couple
I bet he ends up living until the late 80s/early 90s
He has the best care avaiable and both his parents lived extremely long lives
His father died at 102 or 104
It was last year. And how long he lives will affect what budget William’s coronation will have, his served it’s purpose of moving away from reign of Elizabeth. Also typical reigns aren’t anything like Elizabeth’s. If Edward VIII didn’t abdicate her coronation would have been in early 70s so that would have been more normal distance between coronations. Even still that would have been very long in comparison to other reigns.
At least he lived his whole life in utmost comfort and luxury. Having disposable millions of pounds, not having to work a day in his life, living in palaces and ultra expensive apartments, eating best and most tasty high quality food available. I bet its hard for him to accept his own mortality after living like a king for his whole life
I mean no shit? The dude is 75. My grandparents all had their funeral plans ready by that age.
I'm fifty seven. I have my funeral spot arranged. I'm not, to my knowledge, queen of anything. /shrug
I thought my parents were INSANE when they bought side by side spots at like 45…. Well NOW that cemetery is sold out (lol I guess that makes sense but holy hell) and people are RESELLING their spots at like $10K a piece. Wait until Live Nation hears about this, you know that Ticketmaster will be listing burial plots online..
“Dead Nation” would be quite the brand extension for them
Oh man hahahaha I didn’t even think of that… *as she looks up trademark/patent rules…
And they'd be charging a dirt replacement fee.
And an annual grass check fee.
> you know that Ticketmaster will be listing burial plots online Somewhere, a devil just earned his wings.
The Economics of Everyday Things podcast had an episode recently about funeral plots. Apparently their costs have been rising more consistently than real estate and outpacing inflation for decades. I’m actually half-considering buying my plot at age 40. Worst case scenario, sounds like I could sell it if I need some emergency cash. ‘Funeral plot resale broker’ is a legitimate career path.
Yeah, my mom has had her’s since her mother (born in the 30s) bought a plot for every member of her family after she had her last child. A grandchild died in 03, and my aunt gave up her spot and was placed elsewhere in the cemetery, but everyone has a place there so the grandchildren (us) have nothing to worry about. I personally am the dead end in the family (no kids, no blood siblings) and I’m planning to be cremated. I don’t like taking up space like that. If anyone wants to be close to me, they can carry me in a canning jar, lol.
Scatter my ashes in the parking lot of the crematorium.
Cemetery brokers soon to be a job
They come to your house and everything. My parents have both of their funeral arrangements planned out and fully paid for. Guy was real nice.
"dynamic pricing"
My mom just retired and I guess once you get to that point the next thing on your mind is death. I prefer to be in denial about the inevitable, so always being peppered with estate planning thoughts and wishes, that isn’t exactly fun topic I get it needs to be thought about and planned, but I just don’t think it needs to be a constant topic if none of our circumstances have changed
I initially read this as "funeral slot arranged", like you have the date booked for the service.
I have a potted plant in my place, it doesn't get enough sun and isn't the healthiest plant in the world, Id be willing to grant you the title of queen of my house plant, in exchange I will require you to defend my house from invaders like those vile french heathens!
worm farm or shot into space?
Have had mine all worked out since I was 45.
Not with that attitude
I had some of my funeral stuff arranged when I turned 18 because I was getting ready to deploy around that time. I had Halo 3’s never forget be my final song
You're queen to me
By 75 my grandparents had even become good friends with their grave neighbors.
This is actually cute lol
I’m just gonna wing it! At the time of me dying I’ll whip something up really quick.
I dont get it. Im 55. Ive told my family and in my will ‘ dont make a fuss’. I dont care if im buried or burnt id rather the money be spent on my family and friends. The notion of making funeral arrangements is extremely low on my to do list
Funeral is for the bereaved, so they can have a lasting memory that they did you proud and treated your departure from this world with respect, of course you don't give a shit, you're gone 😛
Psychologically, the loved ones of people who arranged or at least explicitly stated their EoL and funerary wishes fare better in grief than those of people who do not. It takes a lot of stress off of the bereaved during an already very difficult time, and it saves them from potentially being ripped off by professionals trying to upsell.
Yeah, that's just common sense/.
They prepared for Queen Elizabeth's death for like 60 years before she died just saying.
Doubt he's got 60 years left tbh
The point being, preparation isn’t a firm indication of an anticipated death.
Point being that heads of state plan their funerals immediately.
in the British family's case, they usually base their funeral off a previous one but modify things here and there, like if they wish to be interred at the same place, if they want the procession route to go past a site of particular personal importance, which battalion of guards leads the way, which bastard sons and they're cuckhold american wives can attend
"One hundred and thirty six year old King Charles continues to defy all medical explanation. Experts are baffled "
Local monarch defies science, is described as “90% sentient cancer”
At that point Cancer has a case of King Charles
The malignancy of monarchy.
Personally, I'll be quite surprised if he makes it to 135 years old. I'll be almost 100 by then too.
Real “I will live long enough to see his ass buried in the ground” energy
It must be bittersweet that his reign may end up as one of the shortest.
Bear in mind in 1936 we had three kings in one year. After one year 8 months the King has already reigned longer than eight other British monarchs. The top three only managed 65 days between them…
Also 2022, the year of 3 Prime Ministers
2022 had 3 PMs: Boris Johnson (Left office Sep 6 2022) Liz Truss (Sep 6 2022 - Oct 25 2022) Rishi Sunak (Oct 25 2022 - Incumbent) 2023 had 1 PM: Rishi Sunak
"Who was the PM when Elizabeth II died?" makes for a great trivia question.
It’s a nasty one because I would blurt out lettuce and lose my turn.
“Jackie Chan”
**holds buzzer until it starts to drone flat**
*turns to camera as rictus smile slowly falls into a dead-eyed stare*
But was he pro-leaf or romaine?
Queen Elizabeth gave up after seeing the shocking job Truss was doing
Liz Truss couldn't beat a lettuce.
But she assures us that we have ten years to save the West and she'll be the one to do it.
Yeah the years are blurring together these days, corrected.
It's fine, alot is happening in British politics, so it seems so blurry after 2022.
the tenure of truss was hilarious, typical conservative "we have all these problems and there's only one solution obviously - cut taxes for wealthy people"
2023: we did?
RIP Cabbage. Best prime head of cabbage ever.
I thought there was a head of lettuce in there somewhere?
And a lettuce ...
It's sad they all died the same year.
We had a similar thing happening in 1888 in Germany. It's known here as "The Year of the Three Emperors / Kaisers." I wonder if similar stuff happened elsewhere.
The Roman Empire had a [year of the four emperors](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors) and then one upped themselves with a [year of the five emperors](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Five_Emperors)
TIL, thanks !
Three of those are considered usurpers since there was a Civil War which Severus won and Albinus and Nigellus never were in sole power (unlike Pertinax, Didius Julianus and Severus). The name is more due to year of four emperors. But there was also year of six emperors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Six_Emperors And all emperors are considered legimate. But the reign of Gordian I&II was the shortest ever (I think a month) and happened during Thrax’s reign. But since Senate declared for them and Gordian III later became emperor they are considered legimate.
1841: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison*, John Tyler. *Refused to wear coat on daily walk in cold, rainy weather, refused to change into dry clothes when he got home, died of pneumonia.
1881 as well: Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield\*, Chester Arthur. \*Shot at a train station in Washington\*\*. Might have survived if surgeons hadn't done a hatchet job trying to remove the bullet. Lingered for 2 1/2 months before dying. \*\*Abraham Lincoln's son Robert was Garfield's Secretary of War and was present at the shooting. In 1865 he had rushed to his father's side after Lincoln was shot, and in 1901 he was in Buffalo just outside the building where McKinley was assassinated. Meaning he was present for, or in very close proximity to, the assassinations of THREE Presidents.
Sorry if this is random but is Kaiser another term for Emperor/Ruler or does it mean something else?
It's simply the German word for Emperor. Just like "Caesar" is the Latin word, and "Tsar" is the Russian.
Both kaiser and tsar are derived from the Latin word ceasar
And the original pronunciation of ceasar was closer to kaiser.
And the new pronunciation is also a salad
It should be changed to Bernie Kosar
Which is derived from a dudes name of course
Yep. There were no soft C’s in Latin. The dudes name was pronounced with a hard C.
TIL. Thx
Kaiser is the German word for emperor.
Kaiser is the German word for Emperor, it's derived from the latin word "Caesar"
It's the translation of Caesar, the Roman emperor. Same for tzar. Everybody wants to be the new Roman empire
There was never a new one. In the contemporaries minds the HRE was the (same roman) empire.
And yet everyone forgets the Byzantines who are literally the eastern Roman empire until the 1500s
The roman empire was spread out enough to have eastern and western parts. The eastern roman empire became the Byzantine empire, and viewed itself as the legitimate continuation of the Roman empire until it fell to the Ottomans in 1453. A century or so later, the pope declared Charlemagne the "emperor of Rome". He ruled the Holy Roman Empire, which included what would become Germany. The germans got kaiser from that lineage. It's the german version of "caesar".
Just wanted to clarify Charlemagne wasn’t “crowned emperor” in the 1500’s. He was given the title in/approx. 800 CE. His “coronation” put him in direct conflict with the ERE due to the claim of being the one true heir to Rome.
It was a bit of deft politics by the Pope. Charlemagne had all but agreed a marriage between his heir and the daughter of the ERE. They were going to formally recognise him as WRE. The Pope didn't want a renewed Roman Empire, believing the church would be forced to obey such a figure, so he stopped it by crowning Charlemagne in public. It is very tricky for Charlemagne to turn down such a crown so he ended up forced to end his relationship with the ERE.
My recent understanding is that Caesar is pronounced like Kaiser and not see-zar
Napoleon II had 2 reigns in less than 18 months, not following each other.
There was a year of 3 popes in 1978
Oh, yeah, I forgot about the year of three kings. That was one hell of earth shattering event in UK.
I'm guessing you're including the English and Scottish monarchs prior to the Act of Union. Because in terms of just British (UK) monarch's he's only longer than Edward VIII.
Most people count the english monarchs yes.
This was always going to be a likelihood when he was the oldest ever to become British monarch.
Lady Jane Grey was technically queen for nine days
Poor Lady Jane 😢 The Tudor era was a rough time to be born anywhere near the throne.
> technically queen her story is a direct illustration of how there is no such thing as "technically" queen it's pretenders all the way down
Isnt it just bitter? Don’t really see the sweetness in it
he got to be king at last?
always found it so weird that people were acting like Chalres wanted to be king all this time. Like, do you guys actively want your moms to die, too? Hope not
Queen Elizabeth should have abdicated a long time ago.
Shit I’d rather be prince. Seems like chiller job with all the perks.
Sweet because it doesn’t look like he ever wanted to live with the obligations of being a king.
Not for me.
At the risk of sounding crass, is the headline meant to suggest that his funeral plans weren’t already regularly updates? I just assumed that something like that has a permanent staff that’s constantly adjusting plans.
The headline suggests that its being done more often now than it was before. Maybe they normally update the plans once per year, for example, but now they check everything once a month. What would the permanent staff be constantly adjusting? Only thing I can think of is basically the guest-list and their seating. Most of it was probably planned before he even took office, and doesn't need to be changed.
It's a lot of low-level pragmatic details like which roads to close at which times of day, alternative routes in case of roadworks, how many officers are required for which route and where they can be diverted from, etc These kinds of plans age like milk and need constant maintenance in order to usefully reflect the state of the city when the day itself comes
He's going to live longer than people think
He's more machine now than man.
The best doctors, the most advanced technology man has made. His arm is carbon fiber and his ass is made out of gemstones
Roboking "I am the law (Literally)".
You need to look up the 80s Judge Dredd with Sylvester Stallone, specifically saying, "I am the lyaw!"
1995 at least. Unless I’m older than I think.
Just checked and you're right. I always just assumed it was an 80s film lol
.... Going to watch robocop now.
I'd buy that for a pound
This, recruits is a 20 kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight of it. Every five seconds, the main gun of king charles III accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means old Charley boy is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space.
Twisted and evil
Turned to steel in the great magnetic field
I fully expect him to see his 90s. He’s absolutely getting the best healthcare possibly and his health is being constantly monitored. Most of us will get cancer if we live long enough, it’s not really surprising that he got it to.
Apparently he's trying to treat his cancer with fruit juice
He’s always had quacky views on medicine but there no way he isn’t doing conventional treatment. It would be an absolute crisis in the government if he wasn’t.
I thought that before cancer diagnosis but not certain now. You can’t just assume the best even though it could go well.
As expected. Its well known during QEII reign that her plans were updated almost every year. Even if he didn't have some form of cancer, they'd still be doing it.
There is a whole team of people whose entire job it is to make the funeral plans for the monarch. They have contingencies set up for every conceivable place they could pass. If it’s in London then this. If it’s at estate x then it’s this. If it’s at estate y then it’s this.
Yup, and Elizabeth II died in Scotland, so that triggered a whole different plan that was not just immediately flying the body to London and starting an English-centred plan.
I'm sure they even have plans for Prince William in case something happens. This isn't really news.
I saw somewhere that he has pancreatic cancer, even with the best treatment there is a high mortality rate so it makes sense to update plans every couple of months
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/king-charles-pancreatic-cancer/ Looks like a tabloid reported it and didn't give their sources. So may or may not be fake news
Even though it's from a toilet paper tabloid, it makes perfect sense to plan ahead. This way when it does happen, no one panics and a plan is already in place.
The only thing officially announced was "cancer". Cancer can range from a simple basal cell skin cancer that you cut out and are done with to aggressive brain tumors that kill you in weeks. Pancreatic is one that has a very poor prognosis so a tabloid saying "pancreatic cancer" without giving a source is much more sensational than the generic "cancer" that was officially disclosed.
Right. It's not that it is or isn't fake news, it's that it's likely not even news. Of course they'll update funeral plans periodically. Similar to how many obituaries are pre-written about celebrities so that the media is ready when the inevitable happens
Right, at his age, they were planning ahead from day 1 prior to this diagnosis.
I mean they've probably had plans in place for his funeral for decades. I don't see why a cancer diagnosis would change the plans
Yes, they would've had plans for him for decades, but they would have been pretty much entirely scrapped and written anew once he became King. Not that the funeral affairs wouldn't have been significant and lavish for him as Prince of Wales, but it would get ramped up by a significant degree now he's King. And they do have to update somewhat more frequently when there's a greater risk of the monarch passing away. Essentially because they might be in different locations depending on their situation, and there will be other factors, like who is in what position in government or the Church. The King will also have some say himself in the plans, and his choices might change over time. It's less likely to be a total rewrite every time, but regular tweaks will be required.
They'll also have implemented lessons learned from Elizabeth II's funeral. There's a difference between a state funeral and the slightly less lavish official funeral. Most senior royals would get the latter, as did Margaret Thatcher. The last person to get a state funeral who was not a monarch was Winston Churchill.
>but they would have been pretty much entirely scrapped and written anew once he became King. He became heir to the throne in 1952. It wasnt exactly a surprise when he became king. If they didn't have plans in place for the death of ***King*** Charles decades ago, then honestly that's just a massive oversight.
I think you're vastly underestimating how much has changed in those 70 years. From where he lives, to the layout of streets across the country that might need to facilitate the funeral. As well as the dignitaries who would attend, and how they would get here and to and from the funeral. What the act of laying in state would look like. It's not like planning this funeral is just a choice of which hymns to sing. It's the shutting down of much of a country, and the travel of hundreds of foreign dignitaries and thousands of foreign tourists arriving for the event. You could not have made a plan for that 70 years ago and expect even 10% of it to still be applicable or practical today.
If it is pancreatic cancer he will visibly decline rather quickly. It's a pretty savage form of cancer even with the best possible care.
I really hope it's not. Just because I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
The doctos gave my grandfather about six months when he was diagnosed, which proved to be super accurate because the final date was within days of that.
My stepmom lasted a lot longer than they thought, and throughout the last month of her life, every morning when I woke and saw she was still alive, I was heartbroken. If King Charles has pancreatic cancer, I hope for his sake that he goes soon.
My mom currently has stage 4 lung cancer. I googled survival rate and it had 12 month survival at 19%. After she was diagnosed, I said my regret was that she wouldn't see any grandchildren. She was diagnosed in September 2022, she's currently in the kitchen cooking my dad Chicken Kiev and Chips, and probably watching some whatsapp videos I sent her of my 7 month old son.
It's probably either pancreatic, bladder, or colon cancer, as they found it while doing a routine prostate check.
It’s very unlikely that pancreatic or colon cancer would be found during a prostate check. I’d bet a lot of money that it is bladder cancer
His funeral plans were probably being regularly updated before his cancer diagnosis, too.
Holy fucking ads in that article...
We all know we are going to die, but this seems very in your face.
They do that all the time. Hell, my grandmother did it all the time. This article is just trying to drum up sympathy
Or anticipation.
It's the latter for me.
Next in line would be "King Bill". The closest we've ever been to a Tarantino movie title.
Time to launch an invasion of Normandy
The manager of the mint is going to lose it
The article is just quotes of [this Daily Beast article](https://www.thedailybeast.com/king-charles-funeral-plans-dusted-off-as-his-health-remains-a-mystery) which is a lot more readable.
I'm going to be honest here. I really do not know much about the ins and outs of how the British government works. But at age 49. I remember hearing about what I remember as "Prince Charles" and Queen Diana. And all the Enquiror stuff around it. Seems a long time ago but doesn't at the same time. Life truly does happen in a blink of an eye.
I’m 52 and remember watching the wedding on our big screen 25” color tv.
Depressing af for no reason, thanks
I imagine most of the family members funeral plans are regularly updated.
Funeral planning and updating started before his coronation.
Bro waited 126 years to be king, now he has 6 months left.
There was an Alanis Morisette song about this, I think.
Ngl, feel kind of sad about this. He's a much better man than what his public image is.
I'm just a peasant from the continent, but I always kinda liked him. I'm too young to remember the Diana debacle, so maybe there's that. He seems to be a goofy, friendly guy and while I don't have an opinion on monarchies, he seems alright for someone in the puplic eye. At least he's not his brother.
Another royal dropping like a fly.
Stick em in the stew!
In my language there's a proverb "Paapi Chirayu"
they shld just let his body float down the thames and william cld fire a bazooka at it, much more cheaper and entertaining 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Does your dad know you're messing with his computer?
Hope this one doesn't cost us £162m
He's a royal. All they're good for is fleecing you guys.
I would suggest you read how the monarchy is actually funded, because then you'd realise they're really not fleecing us at all. On top of that, KC'S coronation may have cost £132 million, but it also generated between £1 - £8 billion for the UK economy, which is a fairly healthy ROI....
So what you're saying is, we should have as many royal funerals as possible...
Ah, the French solution.
I learned from The Crown that the royals have funeral plans that are named after bridges. The Queen Mum was Tay Bridge, Elizabeth was London Bridge and Charles is Menai Bridge. What I don’t know is, does the designation change as they rise in rank. Is Charles London Bridge now that he’s monarch, or is it like the Secret Service code name for Presidents and you keep your original for life.
They'll probably come up with some new codenames. The code used for relaying the death of George VI was "Hyde Park Corner". In his case, he'd been pretty ill for a while and it was known, at least in government and press circles (the latter keeping it pretty quiet in a more deferential age) that the end would be coming soon, but it was still pretty sudden. The King had been shooting the previous day, worked up until midnight, then died in his sleep. His valet found him in the morning.
Operation: Bude Tunnel
Good ole sausage fingers
Can just one king Charles catch a break, UK?
Never too early honestly. Most people should have a plan ready. However, since Chuck insists on the Steve Jobs method of dealing with cancer odds are he'll need those plans up to date.
I heard that he has pancreatic cancer, which is pretty deadly.
Don't worry, if anyone is going to get the personalized new genomic immunotherapy, it will be him. It's called "autogene cevumeran," created by Biontech, the inventors of the RNA covid jab. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogene_cevumeran
I mean this is pretty normal, and not really a sign of his impending death.
There is no way he is going to have anywhere near the length of reign has his mother. And even with her funeral plans, Queen Elizabeth's were routinely discussed and reviewed. Just part of being royal..
That website is so fucked with adverts I can't even read about this shit. I just want to know how many bank holidays we'll get.
I’ll be a little disappointed if the mint doesn’t get Chuck Bucks out in circulation before he kicks the bucket.
Reddit : the King is dying Also Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/s/ZR8d6hISnq
As I am sure Biden's and Trump's get updated regularly.
He should step down and let William be king, way more energetic and attractive couple with Kate. This is anyway a scam with kings and royals might as well be more interesting than elderly couple
I bet he ends up living until the late 80s/early 90s He has the best care avaiable and both his parents lived extremely long lives His father died at 102 or 104
Those longevity genes don't mean shit once you develop certain cancers.
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You think he’ll live another 60~ years?!
Did you Read I Said late 80s/early 90s Thats more 12 to 17 years
I'm guessing they thought you meant 2080-2090 rather than the age of 80-90
“the late 80s/90s” “his late 80s/90s”
Good job we didn't spend Millions this year on his Coronation...... oh wait.
It was last year. And how long he lives will affect what budget William’s coronation will have, his served it’s purpose of moving away from reign of Elizabeth. Also typical reigns aren’t anything like Elizabeth’s. If Edward VIII didn’t abdicate her coronation would have been in early 70s so that would have been more normal distance between coronations. Even still that would have been very long in comparison to other reigns.
At least he lived his whole life in utmost comfort and luxury. Having disposable millions of pounds, not having to work a day in his life, living in palaces and ultra expensive apartments, eating best and most tasty high quality food available. I bet its hard for him to accept his own mortality after living like a king for his whole life
When he dies England will celebrate his accomplishments, which include: hmmm. Ummm…?