do you look at or listen to the death notices?

crazygeryy

Its something i swore id never do but as i get older i find myself doing it every now and then. It seems elderly people do it religiously. Every time i go to my parents there's some one dead ffs.
Anyway do you?

Hande hoche!

Not unless someone I know has died recently.

Gremlinertia

Yup, a lot. Think someday i might find me own name!.

wretcheddomain

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Not unless someone I know has died recently.

Why, just for confirmation that the individual is actually dead?

Shane-KornSpace

I don't, but a woman I worked with would check rip.ie everyday without fail!
I never understood it.

caustic 1

Look online at local obits, mainly because a few years ago a friends mother passed away and I didn't know till the following week, felt awful.

keith16

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Yup, a lot. Think someday i might find me own name!.

My grandad would read the paper in bed first thing in the morning. If his name wasn't in the death notices, he'd get up!

Hande hoche!

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Why, just for confirmation that the individual is actually dead?

Funeral arrangements mainly.

reap-a-rat

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Not unless someone I know has died recently.

I get this - to find out the details of the funeral. But back home, my mother (and more than her) would know remains will be wherever from 5 til 7, and the mass is 11 the next day, and burial is wherever it is. She'll know EVERYTHING about the funeral, and then at like 5pm or whatever, she'll "put on the deaths" and shush everyone and turn the radio up as loud as possible, just to hear the announcer say what she already knows. Why??

Arbiter of Good Taste

On a similar vein, is it just Irish parents who start a telephone conversation with "you'll never guess who's dead"

Frosty McSnowballs

I just stick to the pen pal area. If I don't get a letter in 2 weeks, I check the death notices.

caustic 1

Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »

On a similar vein, is it just Irish parents who start a telephone conversation with "you'll never guess who's dead"

Yeah and the more dramatic the passing the better. :eek:

lukesmom

My dad does but he's 70 years old and said its sometimes the only way he can discover deaths of people he knew and grew up/worked with in the past.

BarcodeMuncher

Its depressing but has to be done sometimes..

lanomist

All the time, first thing in the morning listen to the death notices on the local radio, and when away on holidays i check them nearly every day on the internet.A few years ago i was away on holidays for a few weeks and went for a pint the night i got home,was drinking with one of my friends whose wife had been sick, after about an hour i asked him how she was and to my great embarrassment he told me she had died eight days earlier.:eek:

Rasheed

Every day without fail mam and dad listen to shannonside for the deaths.

Then read the back if the Independent to see how many they had in family.

Finally RIP.ie to see is that info different to the independent.

Rasheed

Every day without fail mam and dad listen to shannonside for the deaths.

Then read the back if the Independent to see how many they had in family etc

Finally RIP.ie to see is that info different to the independent.

FudgeBrownie

Nope. That would be the weirdest fetish, ever.

The Backwards Man

Yep, always do. A lot of my clients are old people, and by and large they spend more money above ground than below it.

I've even put the local radio station's app on my phone purely so I can stay up to date with the obits.

Sir Arthur Daley

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Yep, always do. A lot of my clients are old people, and by and large they spend more money above ground than below it.

Funny you should say that most old people i know dont spend their money and end up dying and leaving a fortune after them and no will, and families fighting over the money.

caustic 1

Older people become obsessed with money I think, it's all my father in law talks about, if anyone falls ill, we need to find out where the money is, I mean...what money? He seems to think there is a stash somewhere, Jesus I hope he is right.

c_man

Rasheed wrote: »

Every day without fail mam and dad listen to shannonside for the deaths.

Then read the back if the Independent to see how many they had in family.

Finally RIP.ie to see is that info different to the independent.

RIP.ie was the carrot I used to lure the auld lad into "learning computers". He's great at everything now, has got so much from the internet. But it took that as bait!

Rasheed

c_man wrote: »

RIP.ie was the carrot I used to lure the auld lad into "learning computers". He's great at everything now, has got so much from the internet. But it took that as bait!

Think it was daddy's first website too. He's still quite limited though, rip.ie, Done Deal and the GAA website are the only ones he frequents!

Chucken

Reading the death notices is as much a part of my day as reading the banned list on Boards.ie

Ruu

No but the information is relayed to me every time I call to the home place. RIP.ie is bookmarked as well.

sadie06

c_man wrote: »

RIP.ie was the carrot I used to lure the auld lad into "learning computers". He's great at everything now, has got so much from the internet. But it took that as bait!

This made me laugh a lot.

I don't often look at death notices, but I find RIP.ie great for looking up old death notices of people whose anniversary I'd like to remember. On that first year or two, it really means a lot to loved ones to get a card, email or text to say they are being thought of.

Galwayguy35

Yes I do ever since the neighbours father died and I never heard about it.

I apologised to them for not making the funeral when I went over with the mass card and they understood but I still felt bad about it.

Stinicker

My mother tunes into Radio Kerry each and every single morning "to hear the Deaths" incase there would be a funeral she'd have to go to. She drags my sister all over the country going to funerals. Last week she went to the funeral of an elderly lady whose daughter she worked with briefly back in the early 1970's and probably hadn't seen since then, but because she is in Christmas card correspondence with her still she had to go to the funeral which was 80 miles away. Another piece of logic is that such and such a person came to their parents funeral so by return they must then return and go to the funeral of these people or their family etc.

My mother works in Health-care and goes to the funerals of her patients also. I'd swear some weeks she has 3 or 4 funerals to go to.

mrsdewinter

c_man wrote: »

RIP.ie was the carrot I used to lure the auld lad into "learning computers". He's great at everything now, has got so much from the internet. But it took that as bait!

That's a brilliant idea - now to get my mother online!

sadie06

sadie06 wrote: »

On that first year or two, it really means a lot to loved ones to get a card, email or text to say they are being thought of.

Even more so many years later

aujopimur

I always check them, nothing like an Irish wake/funeral, a great day out, as good as a wedding and you don't have to bring a pressie.

kerry4sam

crazygeryy wrote: »

Its something i swore id never do but as i get older i find myself doing it every now and then. It seems elderly people do it religiously. Every time i go to my parents there's some one dead ffs.
Anyway do you?

Yes. Radiokerry.ie have an obituary section that I frequent online and also RIP.ie. Not so much the Examiner anymore though. Facebook would also have more recent, personal deaths on families of close friends there.

sadie06

Deleted User wrote: »

Even more so many years later

Absolutely, but for me, I found it naturally trailed off after a few years. 14 years on, I only hear from one friend on the day, and while I do deeply appreciate that she always remembers, I don't blame my other friends for forgetting.

Duiske

Had a look at rip.ie a few days ago and searched for deaths in my hometown. The site only lists back to late 2007, but its scary the amount of people that I would have known well who have died since then. It could be because of the age group I'm in, or maybe I'm a ****ing jinx.

lukesmom

aujopimur wrote: »

I always check them, nothing like an Irish wake/funeral, a great day out, as good as a wedding and you don't have to bring a pressie.

You serious??? 'A great day out'?????

Degringola

Chucken wrote: »

Reading the death notices is as much a part of my day as reading the banned list on Boards.ie

Where is this Boards Banned list you speak of? (Or were you only messing?)

MJ23

"Connors of Drumgoold, Breda 'Biddy' Connors, The Cross, Drumgoold, Wexford. Beloved wife of the late Miley Connors. Loving mother Johnny, Mickey, Willy, Paddy, Seanie, Tony, Mixey, Paudie, Felix, Mary, Biddy, Molly, Brudgie, Mina, Betsy, Elsie, Lizzie, and the late Maura. Reposing and her home til Thursday morning at 11. Funeral mass in St. Finbar's at 12, with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery"

shopaholic01

Degringola wrote: »

Where is this Boards Banned list you speak of? (Or were you only messing?)

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/banlist.php