Enough of live funerals

Our first day here Senator Teddy Kennedy died. All the the flags were flying on half-mast the whole week and on TV there were memorial shows running in a number of channels. Then Saturday - funeral. And all day long you could followed the drawn out cermony live on TV. Tonight I switched on the TV and once again I saw mourning people live. Now it is finally time for Michael Jackson to be put to rest after 70 days. I thought this was going to be a private cermony - but how could that happen if you have a media circus following it?