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turning the TV off after someone dies

  • 22-07-2014 10:57PM
    #1
    Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭


    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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  • #2
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,673 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    If anytime a thread needed more context....


  • #3
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #4
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Someone on tv or in real life?

    :confused:


  • #5
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    caustic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #7
    Buzz Killington the third
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Buzz Killington the third


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


  • #8
    Birroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    Chet T16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Chet T16


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


  • #11
    weisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,858 ✭✭✭weisses


    artanevilla wrote: »
    If anytime a thread needed more context....

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


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  • #12
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭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?


  • #13
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    What do we turn off the day the music dies?


  • #14
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Stopped clocks and coving mirrors I found eerie


  • #15
    Welruc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭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?


  • #16
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


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


  • #17
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    What did we turn off the day the music dies?

    fyp February 3, 1959


  • #18
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    never even heard of it


  • #19
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


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


  • #20
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,029 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #23
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭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


  • #24
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    What about netflix on the old iPhone?


  • #25
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #26
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭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


  • #27
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 19,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,189 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


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


  • #29
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


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


  • #30
    Glebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,632 ✭✭✭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.



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  • #31
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭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.


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