RIP.ie was always a fairly dignified site and quite rightly so.
However, now it would appear, with more competition in the digital death announcement market looming, they're now adding new features such instant alerts where you can find out about about deaths even quicker.
Now the auld lads down the pub enjoying a quite pint can get an instant alert if someone has passed away in the locality. Fast food, fast fashion and now fast death notices. Ireland is really changing.
by baghdadcafe
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Fuck’s sake… like I needed any more notifications like “Alert : Lost ping to JOHN.JOE.DAVIS”.
This is ridiculous
I’m waiting for RIP: The Minority Report Edition. Can’t wait to find out about deaths before they happen.
I mean yeah it’ll be the quickest I’ll be notified of my absent father’s whereabouts this time
Alerts are working a while now on there. It’s not new.
Bit mad that you can death notices delivered as quick as weather alerts now.
“3m ago – Light rain expected to start in your area”
“2m ago – Paddy just died”
Grabbing the popcorn for this one can only imagine the fun an ex employee whose not on good terms with them and literally give everybody a different notice going to be deadly funny will have mass panic.
Upload your m8s contacts and get live updates
Gonna set up alerts for all my ops so I know when they die
I heard they were introducing AI to alert you before someone dies.
DEAD SINGLES IN YOUR AREA
I have my granny for that. “Do you know John down the road? No. Can you believe he died?'”
Every time.
My aunt has RIP.ie set as her browser homepage. She is about to become more powerful that I could have ever imagined.
My mother, the absolute morbid ghoul that she is, lives on [RIP.ie](http://RIP.ie) and is constantly reading it. She’ll be delighted by this. Anything to get the dose of misery.
*queue up that gif of Mrs. Doyle saying “Maybe i like the misery”*
I suppose it beats getting them forwarded to you on Whatsapp.
Follow Nana
All these different sites now for deaths. Can’t be going around them all looking to see who is dead. Someone needs to create a Trivago like site that captures them all.
Sure it’s nice to have alerts but I need Outlook integration to automatically put funerals in my calendar so I can prioritise the important ones and network more efficiently.
This is quicker than Aoife Kennedy’s bedroom getting cleared out.
I got an alert I was dead before I hit the ground
Some service
lol, next they should hook up with one of the genealogy sites and show the dead persons family tree so that there is no confusion about “which Pat Murphy would he be now?”
Now link it with fb marketplace
While I do think its a bit much, it is just a modernisation of your local radio reading death notices on the hour – my in-laws still listen in on a daily basis.
For when Mam needs that instant dopamine hit of outliving Helen from down the road.
hopefully everyone that enables these ends up as one themselves just so nosey cunts that didn’t even know them can gossip about them when they die too
Shit! Now what am I gonna talk to my mother about when she rings? I can always bank on the “guess who died” quiz?
DEADline Day Exclusive Breaking News: I can confirm that Pat down the road has just died
Ireland is really making progress eh.
Does https://depart.ie/ need its own entry in RIP.ie too?
Lets not big up the Irish Times owned RIP.ie
This is how Elon Musk will convince Irish people to use neuralink
Death alert not the same buzz
Kind of kills the magic of Bridie from Roscommon logging on as she does every hour to RIP.ie and finding out that Paddy Joe from Mayo who she lived with in a bedsit in Ranelagh while in her 20s died the other day.
Irelands newest emerging market; Death notification. Grim.
It’s kind of the exact opposite of a friend request
>now adding new features such instant alerts where you can find out about about deaths even quicker
As in like, enter a name in an area, and when someone with that name dies you’ll get an alert?
Used to be called “checking who’s off the smokes” in my day. The build up to it was all part of it. You’d make a cup of tae and then open the paper. Or you ask people to quieten down while the radio is on.
I know we are biased here but if there is any place in the world that does death better than the Irish let me know. We all stand by each other during that first few steps into the darkness. And until you join the club, and pay the price of love (which is loss and grieving), that can be an unusual one to grasp. At least in the way you will most certainly grasp it after. Be you King or pauper. Love knows not it’s depth until the moment of parting.
The human mind is bizarre, and it can hold two views at the same time. You know a person is gone, you are not stupid. But your brain is also like “where the fcuk are they gone” because it’s so used to walking in the door and seeing them. It’s like waking up to take a piss during the night. You don’t need to remember the direction around your own house. It’s embedded in the brain. So if you followed all the steps you should follow and the jacks is gone your brain would get a right surprise even though it can physically see the jacks is not there.
Or alternatively, you’ve made your dinner, got the knife and fork out of the drawer, and then went to the table and it’s gone. You don’t own a labrador, so what the hell is going on. All you can put it down to is a magical disappearing act. Your brain can tell you the dinner is not there, but it doesn’t get it. It followed all the steps required to make the dinner; and it will get angry and upset and want it’s dinner, no matter how much you try get it to stick to the facts, which is the dinner is gone. It’s not there anymore.
When your brain is like that, the way the Irish deal with death helps you navigate the situation better. If someone just died, you get a notice on your phone, and then they get fxcked into the furnace, it wouldn’t be good. It degrades it all. And it’s exactly this trauma, the ambivalence of it, that is at the core of why it’s incredibly hard for anyone who has experienced the murder of a loved one, a death in a car crash, a suicide, or similar.
It’s not easy for anyone to lose a loved one. But Christ lads let’s keep up the Irish traditions and not degrade them. We do things well. Avoid the slippery slope.
Anyway, that’s my Ted Talk for anyone who reached the end.
I’ll be adding “endless push notifications but it’s RIP.ie every single time” to the nightmare bank so. Thanks, I hate it
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