# Most tasteless thing about Whitney's Funeral? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 21, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479 "2012-02-21T00:42:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/41 "2012-02-22T02:13:18Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > No, Clarence Clemons and Harry Shatel (the winningiest high school baseball coach in the state) got their half-mast flag days too. I fully expect that when Bruce Springsteen or Jon Bon Jovi dies, New Jersey will close for the day. I said the exact same thing when I heard about all the anger. And the argument pretty much shuts people up because everyone knows it’s true! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/42 "2012-02-22T14:27:32Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Who does it hurt to fly the flags at half mast? > > Is this something truly worth worrying about? Talk about nitpicking. I believe the main objection is that giving out an honor (such as lowering flags) to people who don’t deserve it (or at least are considered not to) cheapens that honor for those who do. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/43 "2012-02-22T14:39:25Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Who does it hurt to fly the flags at half mast? The drunken calls into local AM Talk-Radio stations dropped by at least half so clearly their ratings were hurt. Crotchety old men in lawn chairs have to have something to whine about besides spending $12.50 on a snow shovel when the sky doesn’t even have the decency to snow. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/44 "2012-02-22T14:44:31Z")
> [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](#): > > I believe the main objection is that giving out an honor (such as lowering flags) to people who don’t deserve it (or at least are considered not to) cheapens that honor for those who do. No one was bitching when she turned the National Anthem into a #1 single. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/45 "2012-02-22T15:51:58Z")
> [@](#): > > I believe the main objection is that giving out an honor (such as lowering flags) to people who don’t deserve it (or at least are considered not to) cheapens that honor for those who do. I’m sorry but I have to call out this reasoning as complete projection. Show me one person, so honoured, who feels it has been ‘cheapened’ by this display. (I want to say this to every person who makes this point, because it seems so lame to me, but I never really do. It’s not just you, please don’t take it personally!) ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/46 "2012-02-22T15:54:57Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I think she’ll need all that for her therapy fund! Not only did that poor girl have to deal with having two celebrity parents, which can’t be easy with Papparazzi and fans knocking you down to get to your parents, but both parents were hard drug users. And now her mom, who I have no doubt loved her, even though she was screwed up, is dead. > > Poor thing doesn’t stand a chance. What a shame. I understand your concern and sympathy, but I don’t think her future is quite set in stone just yet. People have come from as bad or worse starts in life and gone on to be strong, intelligent, independent souls… It’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/47 "2012-02-22T18:02:01Z")
> [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](#): > > I believe the main objection is that giving out an honor (such as lowering flags) to people who don’t deserve it (or at least are considered not to) cheapens that honor for those who do. Oh. Well, it doesn’t, so that’s one less thing to fret over! ---
**Author:** ![CTburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@CTburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CTburns)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/48 "2012-02-23T06:08:05Z")
> [@Chicagojeff](#): > > Don’t get all butt hurt because you got called out on your bullshit. First you adopt the whole.. “i didn’t watch it” stance.. then “from the little I caught it was clearly ghetto” stance.. > > To use an ancient Hip-Hop phrase.. My friend their’s no future in your frontin’.. Just come out and say what you really want to say.. Quit being a punk about it.. I want to say what should have been a nice celebration was ruined by acts like Bobby Brown storming out and Aretha Franklin being a guest of honor, and then “uninvited” by Whitney’s mom. They didn’t pass out 40’s of malt liquor, but I think the whole thing turned out ghetto. It’s a shame, because their was lots of talent there to celebrate an a very accomplished artist. Just couldn’t pull it off without bickering and storming off. Classy behavior for a funeral. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/49 "2012-02-23T06:26:00Z")
> [@BeaMyra](#): > > I think funerals and wakes should be family oriented. The media should not have been invited. I know she had fans who loved her and that’s fine, but a person deserves dignity in death. > > Bobby Brown being her ex had a right to attend, you don’t forfeit your right by being a jerk. As well as his kids, who from all reports were close to Whitney. > > If they wanted to have celebrities and singing they could hold a public memorial service after. It’s odd, to me, that you think Bobby Brown had a right to attend, and yet the media shouldn’t be invited. He beat her, and dissed the group by bringing more than he knew he should have. He didn’t have the right. He was a guest. At any rate, I haven’t seen it. It seems that nobody has disputed the facts, so, to me, it does sound a bit ghetto. However, since she’s dead, it can’t hurt her. Her kids are making money off of it, and if I were the one in the coffin, I would think that whatever would benefit my child was alright, low rent or not. And, let’s be real, they pulled off something that Joe Jackson would be proud of, and Don King couldn’t even imagine. ---
**Author:** ![CTburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@CTburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CTburns)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/50 "2012-02-23T06:52:01Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > It’s odd, to me, that you think Bobby Brown had a right to attend, and yet the media shouldn’t be invited. He beat her, and dissed the group by bringing more than he knew he should have. He didn’t have the right. He was a guest. At any rate, I haven’t seen it. It seems that nobody has disputed the facts, so, to me, it does sound a bit ghetto. However, since she’s dead, it can’t hurt her. Her kids are making money off of it, and if I were the one in the coffin, I would think that whatever would benefit my child was alright, low rent or not. And, let’s be real, they pulled off something that Joe Jackson would be proud of, and Don King couldn’t even imagine. I think that says it all! ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/51 "2012-02-23T11:20:55Z")
One of the conditions Bobby Brown was subject to was not to approach his own daughter unless she initiated contact. And some of the 9 people (instead of 2) were his kids from previous relationships who were reportedly close to Whitney. Now the funeral will be rembered for BB leaving instead of eulogies by friends and famiy. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/52 "2012-02-23T21:22:58Z")
Her kids? I was under the impression Whitney only had one child, her daughter Bobbi Kristina. Am I wrong? I only saw the gold hearses and i thought that was a nice change from the white black and grey i usually see. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/53 "2012-02-23T21:57:52Z")
In searching for news about Whitneys funeral I found this page which has a phoe of Whitney in the casket. It is from the National Enquirer so keep that in mind as it might be a fake. [http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/02/22/national-enquirer-posts-whitney-houston-open-casket-photo-in-poor-taste/?intcmp=features](http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/02/22/national-enquirer-posts-whitney-houston-open-casket-photo-in-poor-taste/?intcmp=features) ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/54 "2012-02-23T22:08:51Z")
> [@CTburns](#): > > …and we all knew she was a drug addict; Did we all really know this? I’ve looked a bit online for evidence of just how addicted she was and couldn’t find a whole lot. I might have just missed it, but what is the best evidence to how addicted she really was? Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/55 "2012-02-24T04:00:18Z")
> [@anya\_marie](#): > > Her kids? I was under the impression Whitney only had one child, her daughter Bobbi Kristina. Am I wrong? > > I only saw the gold hearses and i thought that was a nice change from the white black and grey i usually see. You are correct. Bobby Brown brought his other children. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/56 "2012-02-24T11:12:45Z")
> [@CTburns](#): > > I just seen . . . This is tasteless and classless. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479/57 "2012-02-24T19:07:21Z")
Eh, the picture in the casket wasn’t so bad. I don’t get how people WANT to take pictures of someone in a casket, anyway. I’ve seen photos where folks are standing NEXT to the open casket, and it’s almost like a tourist picture. Yuck. Nah, the WORST picture the National Enquirer ever had was a smuggled photo of John Lennon just before he was cremated. It was tinted, obviously, but it was TACKY TACKY TACKY. ~VOW [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-tasteless-thing-about-whitneys-funeral/613479.md?page=2)