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Death Notices

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  • #52
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    I like "see I told you they were sick!" ... :D

    That's on Spike Milligan's grave stone in Irish.


  • #53
    Andy From Sligo
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    Dorian Gigantic Glycerin wrote: »
    That's on Spike Milligan's grave stone in Irish.

    it is, there is that phil mcCavity one as well about he done his last filling :D


  • #54
    Steve F
    Registered Users Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭Steve F


    My favorite is

    Here I lie outside the Chancel door
    They put me here 'cause I was poor
    The further in the more you pay
    But here I lie as snug as they

    Kinda puts everything in perspective I always think


  • #55
    Andy From Sligo
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    Steve F wrote: »
    My favorite is

    Here I lie outside the Chancel door
    They put me here 'cause I was poor
    The further in the more you pay
    But here I lie as snug as they

    Kinda puts everything in perspective I always think

    nice reflection of life as well - we might all want to be rich and have the best, but if we are not we get on with it and make the best of what we have ....


  • #56
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    In either Massachusetts or Arizona, I can't remember where I saw it...

    Tom Walker
    Atheist
    All dressed up
    And nowhere to go.


  • #57
    lukesmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Mine will say -

    Free your body and soul
    Unfold your powerful wings
    Climb up the highest mountain
    Kick your feet in the air
    You may now live forever
    Or return to this earth
    Unless you feel good where you are

    Its actually the epitaph of a man named John Laird McCaffery in a Montreal cemetery


  • #58
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    "Here lies Lester Moore, four slugs from a .44, no Les, no more".

    in Tombstone, Arizona


  • #59
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Devoted sister, beloved aunt...


  • #60
    Ted_YNWA
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    Local radio station I know had an unfortunate habit when reading the death notices, for the last one on the list

    ..... and finally the death has occurred of ..


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  • #61
    Mena Mitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,155 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    The newspaper death notices had 'American papers please copy' if the deceased had spent some time there or the deceased was American living in Ireland. Same for English newspapers.


  • #62
    Graces7
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    This has many variations

    Remember Man as you go by
    As you are now so once was I
    As I am now so shall you be,
    Prepare yourself to follow me


  • #63
    Andy From Sligo
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    Headstone in a Sligo graveyard

    447618.jpg


  • #64
    Graces7
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    I hate seeing "Rest in peace" on children's graves.They wanted to play, run, dance, live, not rest


  • #65
    sligojoek
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    This has many variations

    Remember Man as you go by
    As you are now so once was I
    As I am now so shall you be,
    Prepare yourself to follow me
    To follow you, sir, I would be content.
    But I'm fu*ked if I know which way you went.


  • #66
    AllForIt
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    Is reposing a euphemism for decomposing?


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  • #67
    Graces7
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    AllForIt wrote: »
    Is reposing a euphemism for decomposing?

    er no/ That comes much later after burial. Just means,,, coffin,often open, is ..resting, waiting, no active eg funeral service going on, just there for folk to visit


  • #68
    Graces7
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    sligojoek wrote: »
    To follow you, sir, I would be content.
    But I'm fu*ked if I know which way you went.

    Reminds of Hamlet in the cemetery, holding up the skull..
    "Go tell thy lady, though she paint an inch thick , she'll come to this."

    As the fair Ophelia did..


  • #69
    Graces7
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    Some irreverent ones from Irish Central

    https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/craic/epitaphs-funny-irish


  • #70
    Graces7
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    There is no headstone for this one, but...

    Someone close to us went home recently

    She was 95 and simply went to sleep.

    The note she left said,,

    "Burn me, scatter me, remember me."


  • #71
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    You cant really argue with the word 'died'.

    Where as I have heard medical professionals use the phase 'no longer with us', or equivalent, simply not to make it sound as harsh, or to cause upset, to be met with the reponse, which ward/hospital have you moved them to.

    If someone has died, used the word died.


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  • #72
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Family flowers only please; donations, if desired, to .....


  • #73
    Graces7
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    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    You cant really argue with the word 'died'.

    Where as I have heard medical professionals use the phase 'no longer with us', or equivalent, simply not to make it sound as harsh, or to cause upset, to be met with the reponse, which ward/hospital have you moved them to.

    If someone has died, used the word died.

    prefer gentler wording..easier for staff and relatives at a crushing time... also we use the terms I used.


  • #74
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,873 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    passed away ... passed on .... or even 'passed' -- all very much nicer words and are used frequently for a reason for nice people. however i have no issue if someone wants to use the word 'died' for a monster or horrible person, violent murderer or kiddy fiddler or someone like that


  • #75
    TomOnBoard
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    Dorian Gigantic Glycerin wrote: »
    Relict, Andy - Relict. A relic is a different thing altogether.

    Yeah, a relic is part of the remains....


  • #76
    TomOnBoard
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    ah right, the snuff tobacco you sniff up - is that the term where snuffed it come from?

    Snuffed it referred to putting out a candle...


  • #77
    Andy From Sligo
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    guy on the local radio station the other day had a bad coughing fit whilst doing the death notices and all i could think about is 'say if he croaked it on air whilst doing the death notices!' ...


  • #78
    freshpopcorn
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    guy on the local radio station the other day had a bad coughing fit whilst doing the death notices and all i could think about is 'say if he croaked it on air whilst doing the death notices!' ...

    That happend on a program on RTE 2 called Nowhere Fast a few months ago.


  • #79
    Andy From Sligo
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    That happend on a program on RTE 2 called Nowhere Fast a few months ago.

    wow! :eek: - real was it? - or was it a skit?


  • #80
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,068 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    wow! :eek: - real was it? - or was it a skit?

    Nowwhere Fast is sort of this Irish comedy about a young woman who moves home to rural Ireland after getting fired from job on the radio in Dublin. She is listening to the death notices with her mother and the presenter starts cough/etc and has a heart attack and dies. The mother/daughter begin to jump up and down because it's a chance for her to get the job.


  • #81
    leonffrench
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    With burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery


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  • #82
    Andy From Sligo
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Nowwhere Fast is sort of this Irish comedy about a young woman who moves home to rural Ireland after getting fired from job on the radio in Dublin. She is listening to the death notices with her mother and the presenter starts cough/etc and has a heart attack and dies. The mother/daughter begin to jump up and down because it's a chance for her to get the job.

    :D haha - funny ... in a sick kinda way :)


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