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  • 14-11-2022 7:19pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    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?



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    #2
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,538 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    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.



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    cnoc
    Registered Users Posts: 785 ✭✭✭cnoc


    Every day and I check 3 counties!



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    #4
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,517 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    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.



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    #5
    TooTired123
    Registered Users Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭TooTired123


    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



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    #6
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,517 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    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.



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    #7
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,601 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    We'll all be there one day.



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    #8
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119874211#Comment_119874211

    Arguably , one of the better posts round these parts in a while.



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    #9
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    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.



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    #10
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,980 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I do, but I can’t find any of you, just myself.



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    #11
    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,596 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Of course! How else would I know who to scribble out of the phone book?



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    #12
    BingCrosbee
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭BingCrosbee


    I check it first thing in the morning and about 5 times daily. I check 6 counties as I worked across the midlands.



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    #13
    xhomelezz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,993 ✭✭✭xhomelezz


    Never heard of that site. Should I join the club?



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    #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Always check in to see if I've checked out



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    #15
    Swaine
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭Swaine


    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".



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    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,134 ✭✭✭screamer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119875102#Comment_119875102

    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!



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    #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    It's rubbish since they turned the comments off.



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    #18
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,601 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    De mortuis nil nisi bonum.



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    #19
    Burt Renaults
    Registered Users Posts: 918 ✭✭✭Burt Renaults


    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.



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    #20
    Kalimah
    Registered Users Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭Kalimah


    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.



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    #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 266 ✭ [Deleted User]


    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.



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    #22
    Mundo7976
    Registered Users Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭Mundo7976


    My wife does, regularly, it's weird!



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    #23
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,509 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119875629#Comment_119875629

    bereaved singles .ie



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    #24
    Gooser14
    Registered Users Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭Gooser14


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119875658#Comment_119875658

    A politicians secretary perhaps.



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    #25
    Kalimah
    Registered Users Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭Kalimah


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119875706#Comment_119875706

    OMG no!



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    #26
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 38,047 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    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'



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    #27
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,980 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    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.



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    #28
    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,486 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    Memento Mori comrades...



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    #29
    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,486 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058271756/anyone-else-here-frequently-browse-rip-ie

    That's cat.



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    #30
    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,486 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119874171#Comment_119874171

    Yeah, speaking of Memento Mori, f**kin Google autocompletes me into it every time I check it.

    RIP.ie: you autocomplete me...

    Me:



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    #31
    Madison Attractive Sailboat
    Posts: 0 ✭ Madison Attractive Sailboat


    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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