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turning the TV off after someone dies

Snake

Never got this. It's supposed to be a mark of respect for the deceased. But I don't understand how. Never did bother doing it myself, do any of you do it? No one's died that I know, just curious.

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artanevilla

If anytime a thread needed more context....

efb

I remember when someone close to me died, I had to turn off the tv cos I just couldn't watch it. Life had stopped for me, I needed a break away from it

Larianne

Someone on tv or in real life?

wazky

I don't usually turn it off unless they have collapsed straight in front of it, fierce distracting having a corpse in your view of the TV.

caustic 1

Now turning off the tv I can get, I mean someone in the house just died, what you might miss the Kardasians? Stopping all the clocks and covering mirrors confuse me.

Buzz Killington the third

I don't turn it off unless my electricity dies!

Birroc

GrayFox208 wrote: »

Never got this. It's supposed to be a mark of respect for the deceased. But I don't understand how. Never did bother doing it myself, do any of you do it? No one's died that I know, just curious.

I turned it off when they shot JR.

sam34

My grandmother, who lived with us, made us do this any time there was a death in the immediate family. TV and radio turned off and mirrors covered until the burial had taken place. The thinking behind it was that it was not a time for frivolity or vanity.

Chet T16

Game of Thrones had me turning the tv off in a fit of rage after a few of the deaths

weisses

artanevilla wrote: »

If anytime a thread needed more context....

I am still in the first half hour of saving private ryan

wazky

sam34 wrote: »

My grandmother, who lived with us, made us do this any time there was a death in the immediate family. TV and radio turned off and mirrors covered until the burial had taken place. The thinking behind it was that it was not a time for frivolity or vanity.

I'd say ye were delighted when she popped her clogs so?

Un Croissant

What do we turn off the day the music dies?

efb

Stopped clocks and coving mirrors I found eerie

Welruc

Never heard of this, surely someone close to you dies your not worried about missing corrie.

How long is it before your supposed to start watching again?

Harry Palmr

I tried to switch mine off when Tommy Cooper died but it turned into a pigeon instead, what was that about?!

efb

Un Croissant wrote: »

What did we turn off the day the music dies?

fyp February 3, 1959

--LOS--

never even heard of it

Tail Docker

Is this after you break down the door and shoo the cat eating their face?

Strazdas

I turned it off for a day or two after my mum died but put it back on the night before the funeral. I wasn't really watching, I think I just had the news on and something else but did actually find it quite comforting to have something normal in the background. One of my main reasons for putting it on was that I knew that is what she would want, she certainly wouldn't want a doom laden atmosphere in the house in sombre silence : her attitude would be that normal life has to go on.

sam34

deuceswild wrote: »

Never heard of this, surely someone close to you dies your not worried about missing corrie.

How long is it before your supposed to start watching again?

After the burial.

Stheno

When my father died 2.5 years ago, there was no tv in the house until after the funeral.

TBH my father had died, I had no interest in the wider world than dealing with everything that came up.

Mariasofia

My mother told me about sympathising with a widow years ago......her reply:
"What a night the fcuker picked to die.....Im missing Coronation Street over him!!!!" :-D

Riamfada

What about netflix on the old iPhone?

efb

Mariasofia wrote: »

My mother told me about sympathising with a widow years ago......her reply:
"What a night the fcuker picked to die.....Im missing Coronation Street over him!!!!" :-D

What fcuking day can a man die now? That shít seems to be on the whole time- and repeated ad naseum

Mariasofia

efb wrote: »

What fcuking day can a man die now? That shít seems to be on the whole time- and repeated ad naseum

Was on mon and wed then and the inconsiderate "fcuker" died of a wed!! :-D

Kimbot

I could see the sense in it. You get a phone call and the family would probably be sitting watching TV so as a mark of respect you switch it off and reflect on the person that has passed.

kowloon

Like that other ancient Irish tradition of leaving RIP comments on the deceased's Facebook page.

shruikan2553

Never heard of any of that. The Irish find any excuse to cover the mirrors for some reason.

Glebee

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Never heard of any of that. The Irish find any excuse to cover the mirrors for some reason.

From what i remember it was that any mirrors in a room where someone has recently died, must be covered so that the dead person's soul does not get trapped behind the glass.

P_1

sam34 wrote: »

My grandmother, who lived with us, made us do this any time there was a death in the immediate family. TV and radio turned off and mirrors covered until the burial had taken place. The thinking behind it was that it was not a time for frivolity or vanity.

Isn't that a traditionally Jewish ritual? Sitting Shavat I think it's called. I suppose it has it's merits but it strikes me as being a tad depressing.