[Patrick]

Sounds disrespectful, tacky, pathetic, stupid and altogether sh*t.

I'm sorry - but if someone died in my family, and I was really that close to them - regardless of where on the world I lived, I would make sure I'd get to the funeral or find some decent way to pay my respects, even if it's attending some memorial for them in due course, not ******ing happily sitting in the comfort of my living room in a dressing gown watching the burial of your Grandmother taking place on a computer monitor.

Christ almighty.