I'm definitely gonna lose on a vote. I haven't had a single soul support my position.
Just a lonely voice crying out in the wilderness..... LOL!
I see that others have jumped on you already, so I'll not do a knee-jerk pile-on. Except: I'm another that doesn't see any reason to stop the whole event. A reasonable memorial service is certainly warranted, but the Jamboree should carry on.
weaponeer's #78 is exactly right.
Tragedy is part of life, and each of us have to learn to deal with that. There is no better environment that I know of for children to learn the proper attitude.
During my 8 years as counselor at Scout camps, plus 5 other years as a Scout myself, there were many injuries and several deaths - ranging from lightning death of a Scouter, many Scouts witnessing a (non-Scout) helicopter crash into the lake, broken bones and sprains, and burn injuries from fire-fighting. Never did we send anyone home or terminate the activities. We DID have memorial services, and we honored the life and MEANINGFUL DEATH of the Scouters, and used injuries as lessons, and prayer opportunities.
I appreciate your "respect for life" attitude, but must ask you reconsider this situation yourself. It is my opinion that by taking a "cut and run" attitude, that dishonors the attitudes that these Scout leaders were working to instill.
In this case, if anything strongly out of the ordinary is to be done, I believe it would be far better for each Scout to all chip a buck into the hat, and fly the families of those Scouters into the Jamboree for a memorial service to honor their lives.
You're going to continue to be "Just a lonely voice crying out in the wilderness..... LOL!"