Travolta Mourners Bombard Wrong Funeral Home

46. I am very unhappy to hear that the flowers/plant arrangements that many people sent did not reach the Travolta family. Afterall, we are all hurting from this as well and are praying for them. Alot of people spent alot of their money to show respect. I think that the least the funeral home could have done is sent all of the arrangements to the memorial service for the family to see. Then after the ceremony they should have been taken to local hospitals and institutions where sick people could have enjoyed them.

Posted at 2:12PM on Jan 8th 2009 by Erika

47. #23- you are a total ass, just remember karma is a bitch & you will be repaid for your crude remarks... God bless the Travolta's. They have class & you are a sickening member of society!

Posted at 2:26AM on Jan 8th 2009 by katiejean

48. I was really just looking for any Travolta-related story to post my opinion about something on, so this is the first one I see here right now so it wins (or loses, depending upon how you look at it.)

First, out of respect for this story, I will respond to it. My thoughts on this story is this: the funeral home shouldn't be accepting the deliveries and that will solve that problem quickly. Just because something is delivered to your home or place of business, even if it is a funeral home, you don't have to accept the delivery. When that funeral home starts denying those deliveries, those florist shops and other vendors will very quickly stop sending them there and will find the correct place. Problem solved.

So, funeral home: STOP ACCEPTING THE DELIVERIES, BONEHEADS.

Now the real reason. I haven't heard much about this, but I have to speak up. Jett was a child, and it bothers me to no end that his parents had him cremated. There is NO WAY in this world I could have my child cremated. I know people are different, and I'm trying to remember that. But, I'll just tell you, I like these people, but this cremation thing on a child, I just cannot fathom it. It is just wrong. How could a parent do that? How could a parent bear to know their child is being shoved in a firepit or oven or whatever they do and burned up? I just don't get it. I know, I know people are different. I just can't understand this. Does this bother anyone else? And please, religious comments aside. Save those for another blog.

Posted at 2:48AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Joan Short

49. There's no need to cremate the boy. It's to avoid a second, GOVERNMENT ORDERED autopsy, in the US.

Posted at 3:31AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Jill

50. Joan Short -- you're a little full of yourself, aren't you? A lot of people don't believe in polluting the earth with dead bodies, or taking up precious land with graves. Call me an old hippie, but that's been my belief for decades. My entire family believes that it's God's will to be returned to ashes than to lay in the cold ground, rotting slowly with insects and worms eating away at your soft tissue. "Ashes to ashes"... God forbid any of my family members -- including the children -- should be taken from us before their time (or in due time), cremation is the CHOICE that we, as surviving family members, have made for the remains of one another. We have it in writing so that the decision won't be left on the heads of the grieving survivors.

Just because YOU don't believe in cremation for children doesn't make it wrong or sinister. You people will think of any reason to keep this pot brewing. Give it up and go get a job or something. Don't you have a healthy kid to hug? Go pray to your God that you haven't had to make this type of decision instead of sitting behind your computer judging those who have!

Posted at 7:26AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Ya Think

51. Donate the flowers to a nursing home or children's hospital! I'm sure the Travoltas would not mind and it would be nice that they brightened someones day! So not a hard solution!

Posted at 9:03AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Nicole

52. I don't think he should have had his remains cremated. His is just a boy. Why did they do it in the Bahamas? Why couldnt they wait to return to the US to cremate him?

His Scientology cult may be to him to do it... I heard that John Travolta's brother believes that Jett had autism but it wasn't discussed with John and Kelly and there was a rift between them after that saying that Jett had Kawasaki Syndrome....

I hope he RIP.....Poor kid......
As for the funeral home -they do not have to accept them!!! Send THEM TO St. Jude's Hospital or Shriner's hospital were there are kids dying.... or a local nursing home... Flowers are sooo expensive and they should do something kind as those listed above.....
They were having a memorial at home today which will be private but I am sure TMZ will be swarming over it. Leave them in peace/.

Posted at 9:27AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Nantucket

53. The funeral home should donate the flowers to local hospitals. The hospital will put the flowers in patience’s rooms. It lifts their spirits.

Posted at 9:44AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Jeanine

54. Nantucket, maybe you should read #47's post. I don't understand all of the outrage over cremating "a child." What does it matter? Once you're dead, regardless of your age, you only have so many options. Why is the idea of a child being cremated so much harder to take than the idea of a child being put in to the ground and left to rot with all the bugs eating their flesh? As a Christian, I know that a lot of people (including some in my own family) don't believe in cremation because they think the Bible says it's wrong. The belief is that if the body is burned, it won't be able to be resurrected when Jesus returns to earth. My feeling (and a lot of other Christians agree) is that the physical body isn't needed, and if the previous idea were true, then that would condemn people who have died in fires.

I've never believed in the practice of viewing the body at a funeral home either. I don't want that lifeless body to be my last image of my loved ones. I'd prefer to remember them the way they were in life. I think the whole viewing and burial routines is incredibly gruesome, but it's standard practice. I'm not going to tell anyone else they're "sick" because they do it.

Posted at 10:23AM on Jan 8th 2009 by BB

55. I have never understood why strangers (and that is what we all are to celebrities) send flowers, cards and gifts to celebrites. Send a prayer instead.

Posted at 11:06AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Hepzibuh

56. You would think a President was killed with all this press.
And what is with John screaming out loud in the ambulence "God help save my son" as reported by the ambulence driver. GOD... JOHN? REALLY?? I thought you were a scientoligest who does NOT BELEIVE IN GOD!
Maybe this tragic event will bring the Travoltas closer to finding who the true GOD is and maybe then will have a chance for salvation for themselves and their loved ones. If they are scientoligists they will never see their child again...if they were beleivers then they would be at peace and happy to know that one day they would see and be with their son again. Right now they have no hope, no God and no glory to look forward too. So sad that they have been mis-lead by types like Cruise and others. So sad.

Posted at 10:58AM on Jan 9th 2009 by SavedOne

57. The correct answer is -- cremation is the way to go. The Catholic church -- that so many of you seem to use as reference point here, is responsible for tens of millionss of deaths over the past thousand years and believe me, during the Inquisition, they did not bother burying anyone. They burned them on the spot. So don't give me any nonsense about what God and the Bible tell you. God and the Bible will tell you whatever suits organized religion.

As for Barbarino's kid, I feel bad for the family but this is being pumped up a bit much. 1000 people died in the Middle East last week. That concerns me more.

Posted at 11:21AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Ken

58. They should forward the flowers to a local hopsital .. people always need cheering up!

Posted at 11:32AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Catch22

59. Yeah.....like I'd really appreciate having funeral flowers delivered to me while I'm trying to recuperate in the hospital.

Posted at 11:35AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Hepzibuh

60. Yeah but, I Lord XENU, cremated BILLIONS of people in volcanoes!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu

"Xenu, also Xemu (pronounced /ˈziːnuː/ or /ˈziːmuː/), was, according to Scientology founder (and science fiction writer) L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions[1][2] of his people to Earth in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs. Scientology holds that the essences of these many people remained, and that they form around people in modern times, causing them spiritual harm.[3][4] "

Since Travolta is an OT Level VIII - he knows and believes this as I have complete control over him.

Posted at 11:45AM on Jan 8th 2009 by Lord Xenu