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Death Notices

  • 27-03-2018 12:38pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭


    why do they say "remains" reposing... - sure wouldnt it be nicer to say body reposing or something like that?

    also I think I like the word 'passed away' better than died ... a plant 'dies' if you don't water it - or "my car engine 'died' on the way to work this morning" ...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,562 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    What do you mean by "something like that"?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 779 ✭✭✭HONKEY TONK


    that sounds a bit weird. you think :

    Body sounds better than Remains

    But

    Passed away sounds better then died?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Christians believe the body is just earthly remains after death. Passed away is a euphemism , died is the tried and tested term. Yes, a plant dies but your car breaks down..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    The cadaver will be horizontal in the funeral home between 5pm and 8pm. Then we’ll wheel it into the church then fling it into the big hole John Joe dug a while ago.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    'Late residence' is the one that sets off my oul lad. 'What the fcuk do they mean by late, they lost their life not their fcuking house.'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    "lost their life" - thats nicer than "Died" ...

    "Late" .. well thats when you are supposed turn up to something but your not on time ... your not gonna turn up to something if your dead!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    That lad would be late at his own funeral...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,596 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    The cadaver will be horizontal in the funeral home between 5pm and 8pm. Then we’ll wheel it into the church then fling it into the big hole John Joe dug a while ago.

    And if youre lucky, we will stick him in a big oven and bake the bastard.


  • Registered Users Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Muff_Daddy


    Describing someone as dead, or saying somebody has died isn’t such an issue with me, however when someone describes a person losing their life as being ‘snuffed out’, kinda gives me the creeps.

    Cigarettes are snuffed out, not people.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,179 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    why do they say "remains" reposing... - sure wouldnt it be nicer to say body reposing or something like that? .

    Sometimes the body ain't there.

    Americans do actually talk about the cremains. Not sure if ye Irish are ready for that kind of talk yet.

    And yes I have been to a funeral with that setup in the last couple of years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Interesting that some occupations are hinted at in death notices; 'late of An Garda Siochana' or 'late of CIE'....but not others 'late binman' or 'late used car salesman'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    My dad was and still is obsessed with the death notices. His local radio station runs them at 8am, 10am and 5pm. He listens to them all. It was so goddamn depressing getting ready for school every morning to the soundtrack of death.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    why do they say "remains" reposing... - sure wouldnt it be nicer to say body reposing or something like that?

    ...

    "remains reposing" is unusual imo

    it would normally just say "Reposing tomorrow at X Funeral Home" or whatever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,067 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I think my local radio station just says reposing at such a place and the time!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    The old man usually refers to burials as people being 'planted' and to those already buried as 'pushing up daises'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,736 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    I always think that "remains" has a kind of unsavoury sound: whatever's left ...leftovers...bits and pieces...something like that.

    The "remains" of the dead person...as if the tiger who ate them didn't leave much, just a few scraps, an odd bone or two.

    Whereas Died means exactly that; died. People do die, as do plants; when a living creature stops being alive, it dies, becomes dead. No need to say "passed" as if it was a parked car. Or "passed over" as if they didn't get the job. "Passed away" is just a whisper better, but still sounds like we're afraid to admit they're actually dead.
    And speaking of cars, while people and plants die, engines really don't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Muff_Daddy wrote: »
    Describing someone as dead, or saying somebody has died isn’t such an issue with me, however when someone describes a person losing their life as being ‘snuffed out’, kinda gives me the creeps.

    Cigarettes are snuffed out, not people.

    thats strange, I have heard of "Snuffed it" - as in "he snuffed it" ... but not "snuffed out" to be honest


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    My dad was and still is obsessed with the death notices. His local radio station runs them at 8am, 10am and 5pm. He listens to them all. It was so goddamn depressing getting ready for school every morning to the soundtrack of death.

    i'm getting ... well, not obsessed , but if its on in the background I do find myself listening out now - see if its someone I know :D - but its a bit like the lotto numbers innit :D "dont know, ... know.... ah blimey so and so has passed away" ...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 178 ✭✭Sidebaro


    In an ideal world the death announcements on the radio would just be 'the following people are dead - Jim Ryan, Mary Murphy...'

    I have never heard my parents be surprised by a death on the radio. They always already know because it's big gossip. Don't know why they listen to it? It's like it's up in the air if the person is actually dead but the radio confirms it. Still hope after the post mortem but once it's on the radio, its official.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Rick o'Shé used to do similar when he was on 2fm called "dead or alive?" that was interesting, had to guess whether a celebrity was dead or still living. - he's gone now though to the great big RTE Gold on the Dial ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    If it was a cat or dog I would say "ah my Dog died the other day" or "my dog has just died" - if it was a person I would more than likely say "oh you know who passed away the other day..." - I dont like the phrase "passed over" much


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sidebaro wrote: »
    In an ideal world the death announcements on the radio would just be 'the following people are dead - Jim Ryan, Mary Murphy...'

    I have never heard my parents be surprised by a death on the radio. They always already know because it's big gossip. Don't know why they listen to it? It's like it's up in the air if the person is actually dead but the radio confirms it. Still hope after the post mortem but once it's on the radio, its official.

    I knew a man who used to say he'd turn on the bedside radio in the morning, listen to the death announcements and, if they didn't read out his name, he'd get up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭RichT


    They should announce each death as....... "shuffled off this mortal coil"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    RichT wrote: »
    They should announce each death as....... "shuffled off this mortal coil"

    with some people they should say "has at last been put out of their misery" :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    And calling widows, "relic of.."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Graces7 wrote: »
    And calling widows, "relic of.."

    I haven't seen that one used in a death announcement in years.

    And it's Relict.


    It's a legal term and used mostly in wills nowadays, as it covers Widow and Widower.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    thats strange, I have heard of "Snuffed it" - as in "he snuffed it" ... but not "snuffed out" to be honest

    snuff used to be a big thing at funerals, you don't see much of it nowadays...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    God, I thought that was a joke thing about relic of! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    snuff used to be a big thing at funerals, you don't see much of it nowadays...

    ah right, the snuff tobacco you sniff up - is that the term where snuffed it come from?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    God, I thought that was a joke thing about relic of! :eek:

    Relict, Andy - Relict. A relic is a different thing altogether.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    I always think that "remains" has a kind of unsavoury sound: whatever's left ...leftovers...bits and pieces...something like that.

    The "remains" of the dead person...as if the tiger who ate them didn't leave much, just a few scraps, an odd bone or two.


    When I was small listening to the news I thought everyone had died in a bomb blast and inside the coffin there would be a few bits and pieces of what was left.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    The remains will cover almost all cases. If you managed to mutilate yourself and all that was left was an arm, then remains would be a lot more appropriate than a body.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    ah right, the snuff tobacco you sniff up - is that the term where snuffed it come from?

    It's often cited as the origin of the term but some believe it's from snuff, as in to extinguish, because it was used in areas of England where snuff at a wake was not a tradition.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    RichT wrote: »
    They should announce each death as....... "shuffled off this mortal coil"

    He has "merged with the infinite".


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭Steve F


    I sometimes say
    "Popped his clogs" or "Kicked the bucket" My Wife tuts and rolls her eyes I should be ashamed I know


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.

    haha - I do that .. i'm like this big schpeel and then I'm like "now, what was I going to say?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.

    Are you a Fianna Fail county councillor?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,736 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.

    You give lessons to politicians, right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,736 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    jester77 wrote: »
    The remains will cover almost all cases. If you managed to mutilate yourself and all that was left was an arm, then remains would be a lot more appropriate than a body.

    That would have to be the one surviving arm that you did the mutilating with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    topper75 wrote: »
    He has "merged with the infinite".

    "Ceased to be. Joined the choir eternal."

    Definitely not pining for the fjords...


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    The cadaver will be horizontal in the funeral home between 5pm and 8pm. Then we’ll wheel it into the church then fling it into the big hole John Joe dug a while ago.

    I want that for my funeral notice :D
    _Dara_ wrote: »
    My dad was and still is obsessed with the death notices. His local radio station runs them at 8am, 10am and 5pm. He listens to them all. It was so goddamn depressing getting ready for school every morning to the soundtrack of death.

    Older people generally are. Outside Dublin anyway. My mother couldn't get through the day without listening to the death notices.

    I remember a neighbour of mine who was well over 90 who got a laptop and the internet connected in her home so she could go on to rip.ie and see which of the neighbours she had outlived each day. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    God, I thought that was a joke thing about relic of! :eek:

    roflol! For the laughter, THANK YOU My first belly laugh in ages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    I use "gone home" often. A gentle one...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I often wanted to have the arrangements for the funeral to include "House Private, until after the search."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Slightly off topic, but I work at seeking ancestors for folk and wander round "reiligs"

    One epitaph was on a stone "book". separate from the headston

    "She Was A Woman Of Substance Who Loved Nothing More Than A Chat And A Good Cup Of Tea."

    Burrishoole abbey, near Newport . Co Mayo


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Slightly off topic, but I work at seeking ancestors for folk and wander round "reiligs"

    One epitaph was on a stone "book". separate from the headston

    "She Was A Woman Of Substance Who Loved Nothing More Than A Chat And A Good Cup Of Tea."

    Burrishoole abbey, near Newport . Co Mayo

    That's right beside

    "Here lies poor colour blind Ted. Thought the lights were green when they were red."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    I like "see I told you they were sick!" ... :D


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