RIP.ie to start charging £100

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https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/ripie-to-introduce-100-fee-to-list-death-notices-on-site-from-next-month/a1042120929.html

They'll make a killing!

Or grape and chicken.

Are Presbyterian sandwiches as good as I've heard! ?

I check our local Ballybonkers.ie website occasionally. Or the pub.

The vast majority of funerals I go to, I've never met or barely know the person who died. It's a parent of a friend or neighbour etc.

The traybakes are better. It's unbelievable how many variations. Apple creams are a favourite of mine.

Can we have some recipes? I've never had a Presbyterian tray bake. Or sandwich for that matter.

there's a long traybake thread in Classics. I'll see if I can find it.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3527870-Which-is-the-tastiest-Protestant-traybake

Excellent. Thank you @SybilTheSpy

Are the Presbyterian ones a special niche area of protestant traybakes or are they all the one?

that would be an ecumenical matter

😂

Very good. Very very good.

But sure if you died on a Monday and the funeral was on Thursday it would be all over before it was in the newsletter/bulletin on Sunday.

Before RIP.ie people relied on “The Deaths” on the local radio station. Essential listening for people of a certain age in Ireland.

If you died early enough on the monday, the removal would be on the tuesday and the burial on the wednesday.

I never realised that you have to pay for the death notices that are read out on local radio.
I thought they did out of the kindness of their heart for their poor bereaved listeners.
I am an eejit ! 🙈

I've never come across a church newsletter. They often send something around at Easter or Christmas but it's not a thing where I am and definitely a lot of funerals in my area have no church involvement anyway . I know people don't attend funerals in the same way as they used to so it's great to be able to send your condolences on rip.ie.

Some radio stations ask for upwards of 160 quid apparently 😅 so rip are a bit more reasonable than that

That's a charge that will be passed on to the grieving families. I don't think it costs that much to post a notice in a paper. That's such a scam when it's been completely fee free up to know. Why can't they charge their advertisers instead?

You'd be surprised. I worked with a woman who checked it religiously every day.

As for the charge, I think you would have had to pay to place a notice in the newspaper in any case (before we had rip.ie). So there was probably always a charge. But it's a steep jump from €0 to €100. They'd have been better to bring in an initial charge of €50 and then up it by €10 a year.

https://www.tiktok.com/@jarlathregan/video/7449845985238453536?lang=en

I'm probably being stupid here (wouldn't be the first time), but can anyone explain in baby language where my maths logic is flawed?

In 5m people, if the life expectancy is, say, 100 then surely 1%of the population will die in any given year, which is 50,000, considerably more than Alexa's 32k.
Given that the life expectancy is much less than 100, then more than 50k are dying each year, probably closer to twice the Alexa figure.

Unless thousands of people are heading off to Florida or Spain to pop their clogs, then it doesn't make sense.

I do know a neighbour back in Ireland who continued to draw his uncles sheep headage payment for many years after he had died.
Maybe he never declared him dead.
Maybe thousands are doing this!

The population isn't uniformly distributed across all ages - there's fewer 80yos than 20yos, and 20yos are much less likely to die than 80yos.

@BarbaraHoward but I wasn't talking about the number of 80 year olds dying in any given year.
I am trying to understand why if the life expectancy is 80, how come the number of people who die each year (irrespective of age) isn't 1/80.

Why would 1% of the population die every year? I don't understand your logic there?

I made the mint aero traybakes from one of the recipes linked and it was glorious. nearly converted off the back of it.

I don't know. In my head it made sense.
I could be going mad!