I only go to funerals if I'm ordered to. My brother is on the other end of the spectrum, he's looking them up in the Echo and Craigslist. I don't give a fuck how people grieve, even if they grieve. I think more about my lost buddy Bam, a bulldog, than my parents. Who knows how to deal with death?
People in this situation were literally on the other side of the world with their family having their only holiday of the year. I don't blame them at all if they couldn't charter a jet in time - or didn't want to.
Also, I think the whole coverage is verging on people's princess vibes. People die in car crashes. A friend of mine who did well from nothing bought a Porsche when he suddenly made a lot of money and within a few days he was dead. Oddly we were both 28 at the time. I didn't make the funeral because it was all very quick and he lived in Northampton and that's a fucker of a place to get to. It's very sad but if you're young and full of testosterone, maybe do sports cars on the track, or on your playstation.
As for Liverpool hitting pause on a strategy because someone died. Are you fucking mental? There's clearly a billion quid strategy being played right now. Jota didn't feature in it. Twenty other first team squad members do. They have one chance to realise their dreams, and no event will or should be allowed to stop that momentum. It would be disrespectful to assume the club would prioritise one iota of its ambition over the responsibility to the current playing staff because of a horrible accident that no-one could have predicted.
