Death notices

hairyprincess

Why is it when some people die, their former occupation is listed? I've only ever seen it for school teachers and Eircom and ESB employees. What is so special about those people that they have to have their occupations listed?

If it's from the point of view so that others will know who it is exactly who has passed given that the deceased would be fairly well known publically; then it doesn't make sense; I could list hundreds of other occupations that people are very well known and their occupations wouldn't be listed. So what is it about teachers, ESB and Eircom employees??? Are they extra special in some way???

Orim

hairyprincess wrote: »

So what is it about teachers, ESB and Eircom employees??? Are they extra special in some way???

Jobs for life. It saves putting up a job notice as well.

Sindri

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Temptamperu

You are what you do in a capitolistic world im afraid.

sgb

I've never read the death notice's in the papers, perhaps I'll start now

To see where all the dead people worked

Agricola

No experience of ESB or Eircom employees but most teachers do think they are fairly special I find!

I guess in some ways its just so people know who the person is. If 3 Mary Murphys turn up on the one death notice broadcast, then if one of them mentions her as a teacher, people tuned into the wireless far and wide will go "Jaysus Mary the teacher Murphy died there yesterday"

In other ways it a form of having one last blow on your own trumpet from beyond the grave.

My name is URL

I've only ever seen it for school teachers and Eircom and ESB employees

The answer lies somewhere therein, I reckon.

I've only ever seen blonds with their tits out on page 3 but it doesn't mean that there has never been a brunette featured instead.

dxhound2005

hairyprincess wrote: »

Why is it when some people die, their former occupation is listed? I've only ever seen it for school teachers and Eircom and ESB employees. What is so special about those people that they have to have their occupations listed?

If it's from the point of view so that others will know who it is exactly who has passed given that the deceased would be fairly well known publically; then it doesn't make sense; I could list hundreds of other occupations that people are very well known and their occupations wouldn't be listed. So what is it about teachers, ESB and Eircom employees??? Are they extra special in some way???

That's a strange one all right. The only thing I can think is that the relatives of the deceased asked for those details to be published. And I would be surprised if any publication has a prohibition on other occupations being published if that is the wish of the relatives.

I doubt if you could actually list hundreds of other occupations.

hairyprincess

My name is URL wrote: »

The answer lies somewhere therein, I reckon.

I've only ever seen blonds with their tits out on page 3 but it doesn't mean that there has never been a brunette featured instead.

Ouch

Funfair

Job description would be for former work colleagues who might like to know someone from CIE or Jack’s Bakery etc is dead…
I find it useful when they add a little extra detail like that as there could be 10 Jim Molloy’s or whoever living in a city and it breaks it down to one particular guy who worked wherever .

AnonoBoy

"The death has occurred of AnonoBoy.

Handsome man about town, poet of the masses and jizz-mopper."


I really need to find new employment. I don't want my Ma to have to google what a jizz-mopper is.

born2bwild

I'm a teacher and I'm special.

Kevin Duffy

I don't listen to/read these in any great detail, but I've still heard other occupations. I like hearing the radio notices, it tells me that I'm in an area that still has a sense of community.

Agricola

born2bwild wrote: »

I'm a teacher and I'm special.

Colleague's and Mammy's opinions don't count!

Spread

In some communities the same family surnames are common, as are the given names. For that reason I suspect.

pebbles21

Its strange how they all die in alphabetical order too...

eyesquirm

AnonoBoy wrote: »

"The death has occurred of AnonoBoy.

Handsome man about town, poet of the masses and jizz-mopper."


I really need to find new employment. I don't want my Ma to have to google what a jizz-mopper is.

No matter what employment you get, anonoboy, you will be listed as a jizz-mopper in your death notice.


I always thought they listed occupations so you'd know where to send your c.v. to.


" I'm applying for the job left vacant by the death of... "

:pac:

mikemac1

So many similar surnames

Tom Ryan in Tipperary died. Poor Tom, only there are a few hundred of them in the county and a few thousand Ryans

Ever hear of Pat "The Cope" Gallagher
So that sort of thing

JONJO THE MISER

Some people will have a mass said for them in the dole office:D

nlgbbbblth

hairyprincess wrote: »

Why is it when some people die, their former occupation is listed? I've only ever seen it for school teachers and Eircom and ESB employees. What is so special about those people that they have to have their occupations listed?

If it's from the point of view so that others will know who it is exactly who has passed given that the deceased would be fairly well known publically; then it doesn't make sense; I could list hundreds of other occupations that people are very well known and their occupations wouldn't be listed. So what is it about teachers, ESB and Eircom employees??? Are they extra special in some way???

Bankers too. (ex-AIB etc).

I don't know why people do it.

BTW - avoid getting a short illness. They seem to be fatal.

Truley

My father worked in Eircom all his life and when he died there was absolutely no question that it would be mentioned in his death notice. I don't know, but companies like Eircom seemed to have had a very close knit, internal culture where people travelled a lot and moved around all the various departments all over the country.

We live in the north west but Eircom staff from Letterkenny to Limerick to Dublin would have known my dad so I guess it was a way of notifying people who otherwise wouldn't find out.

Killer Wench

My guess would be that it is an evolution from the printing of notices for landowners and nobleman. It's an attempt to create a class inference for the reader.

44leto

It is just the culture of the west, part of your identity is in what do do for a living. It seems it was always that way even a lot of our surnames are occupations, smyths, Thatcher, Mason, Wright, Taylor, Merchant Etc.

How often have you been talking to someone before you start wondering what they do.

Killer Wench

44leto wrote: »

How often have you been talking to someone before you start wondering what they do.

Only if I already know they are an escort, and then I begin to wonder how much they charge for what they do.

Turtyturd

born2bwild wrote: »

I'm a teacher and I'm special.

Equal opportunities FTW.

JohnP199

AnonoBoy wrote: »

"The death has occurred of AnonoBoy.

Handsome man about town, poet of the masses and jizz-mopper."


I really need to find new employment. I don't want my Ma to have to google what a jizz-mopper is.

Your Mother has had plenty of experience of jizz-mopping so no need to worry about her having to google what it is.

later12

I don't read the death notices, so I have no idea

















I get them on Tipp FM instead

mattjack

Killer Wench wrote: »

Only if I already know they are an escort, and then I begin to wonder how much they charge for what they do.

or if they're selling you a lap top.......and they are wondering what you do























after ya ask 'bout downloading the internet.

Killer Wench

mattjack wrote: »

or if they're selling you a lap top.......and they are wondering what you do























after ya ask 'bout downloading the internet.

Considering that I was working at Amazon.com at the time, it is funny indeed.

The Internet Explorer

Bitches love death notices.

Killer Wench

The Internet Explorer wrote: »

I just died.

Kevin Duffy

Killer Wench wrote: »

I just died.

I noticed.

Alessandra

Do people outside the West have 'the deaths' announced over local radio 3-4 times per day? Tried explaining this to my Dublin friend who'd never heard of the practice...

44leto

I always read the death notices. That thing that happened to Bruce Willis's charater in the 6th sense will never happen to me,.

Chuck Stone

Former GF's Mother bought the local paper and went straight to the deaths every single time.

I couldn't give a shit who's dead as long as it's not someone I care about.