Morbid enough stuff, but curious all the same.
In my case it's mainly to find the aul fella. Look everyday. Bastard has nine lives though.
Am I alone here?
I check if I'm on it before I decide to get up in the morning.
I'll look at the local ones maybe twice a week, as I'll usually not hear of a funeral I should attend otherwise.
Every day and I check 3 counties!
I don't really need to because my mother and my younger brother are constantly on it, so they will let me know of our dearly departed.
My mothers 88. She’ll go to daily mass but she avoids funerals as they are a bit too long for her so I keep an eye out so she’ll know not to go.
Apart from that the “guess who’s dead now!” game is a national pastime outside of the cities. I read out some of the condolences to her and she critiques them for grammar and sincerity.
Families with more then 9 adult children earn comment too “that poor woman peeled a lot of spuds in her day let me tell you!”.
Likewise funerals with no religious involvement “not much comfort in that crematorium though!”.
Harmless enough stuff
Having said that, if I am on the site, I might do random searches of names through the years (in my area) and see if I 'recognise' anyone, or maybe look up college lecturers from 30 years ago or older people I used to work with.
We'll all be there one day.
Arguably , one of the better posts round these parts in a while.
I'm starting to get long in the tooth so I've taken to checking it an odd time to see if anyone I know has died.
I've about 20 - 30 years to go before I expect my own name will be up on it.
I do, but I can’t find any of you, just myself.
Of course! How else would I know who to scribble out of the phone book?
I check it first thing in the morning and about 5 times daily. I check 6 counties as I worked across the midlands.
Never heard of that site. Should I join the club?
Always check in to see if I've checked out
Check it about once a month. There really should be a section on that site where one can leave a review of the departed.
"Joe was a hard working man, loved a pint but was a bit of a bollox all told".
Yep it’d be funny alright, because let’s face it, it’s all sweetness and light when even the worst ould fecker checks out, but reading that site you’d swear every single person had a first class ticket to the pearly gates!
It's rubbish since they turned the comments off.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
Rip.ie should release an app that sends you an alert whenever someone within a predetermined radius dies. Swipe right if you're going to the funeral, left if you're glad they're dead, etc.
I use it all the time for work. Don’t ask😀
Find if quite depressing after a couple of years of using it to be honest.
I avoid obituaries like the plague. They’re too depressing. I lost too many friends and relatives in recent years, several of them way too young. The last thing I need is to be snooping around misery porn, which seems to be a national pastime.
Once you get outside the Dublin and Cork City radio markets there’s “and that was the weather … (somber music) … and the following people have died …” … “if you’d like to listen back to the death notices, just call 1570 80 DEAD … calls cost 2.50 per min”
Or, you can go over to the Late Late or some RTE show where they’ll have a horror story about a tragic illness.
My wife does, regularly, it's weird!
bereaved singles .ie
A politicians secretary perhaps.
OMG no!
Yeah for some reason I would check it the odd time and go on the local page. It's a little sad seeing the homepage esp if the picture of the deceased is young
The comments section were/are odd and would often have randomers commenting. Ending them with the likes 'from a mother', 'a grandmother'
Had a glance earlier when I saw this thread…The amount of young people dying is weird, maybe it’s just a bad week or two but jeeez.
Memento Mori comrades...
That's cat.
Yeah, speaking of Memento Mori, f**kin Google autocompletes me into it every time I check it.
RIP.ie: you autocomplete me...
Me:
I created a bot to check for specified names of folk whose passing I don’t want to pass by so to speak 💀🪦
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