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The Daily PollIT’S MOTHER’S DAY today.
Dr Fiona Murphy writes of it: “Mother’s Day arrives with its usual trappings: pink-hued advertisements, pre-written messages of gratitude, flowers ordered in haste.
“It is a day meant to honour, but it often flattens, reducing something vast and intricate into a singular, sentimental note. Motherhood, in all its forms, refuses such easy containment.”
So today we’re asking you: How do you celebrate Mother’s Day?
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Very sad. I’ve opted for cremation to save costs. It’s only a few hundred quid and I can have the ashes spread wherever I want. The few quid can go to those who need it most and it won;t be me when I’m dead.
Cremation is as bad as a burial, cost is in transport.Had 2 deaths quite close in family and pretty much same price I’m donating my body to science.
How so in transport? The place in Cork will actually send your ashes by courier around the country after the fact if you so wish for a minimal charge of 20-30 euro,
So I assume the cost is in getting your body to the crematorium in the first place? (I’m only 3 miles away from the place in Cork harbour)
Your grand then, the undertaker changed €3,000 hospital- home-church- crematorium, Harolds cross is 30 miles from us so we were fairly screwed.
Colonel, while you’re making some very valid points in several recent articles on The Journal can you kindly (for the love of God) change your admin name!
I always found Gaddaffi a source of amusement. That’s why I opted for it. I may change the picture to something witty instead,
Why should he? It’s only a joke FFS. There are people posting here with far worse names.
I agree.
So do I ..
I should add, that although of no faith myself, the Catholic Church does in fact ‘allow’ cremation too. Lots of people have asked me that over the last few years.
What’s wrong with the name. Has he ever slighted you.? Cheek.!
Nothing wrong with Colonel Gadaffi. At least he looked after his People and Country.
Nothing wrong with Colonel Gadaffi. At least he looked after his People and Country.
Wynnner, I will donate my body to science but I was informed that your remains are returned to your family after a few years so burial or cremation is still required.
I was down in Glendalough there after easter and i was looking at all the grave and churches and stuff and I was thinking wow these people lived hundreds of years ago and built the round tower and lived there lives and now now they’re all gone.kind of makes you wonder what its all about sometimes
I had planned on going to Glendalough this weekend on a camping trip as I’ve never been . The weather soon changed my mind for me. I also found out camping is banned there at the last minute.
Camp down at hidden valley in rathdrum then it’s a short drive to glendalough
Its a grand place for walks. I don’t like the road up to the other carpark though its very narrow. I dont know how the bus drivers manage it
Cheers Wynner That’s next weekend sorted then. I was going to try wild camping, but a campsite will do it for me too.
@Colonel Gaddaffi: camping is banned there st the last minute. What do you mean?
It’s ridiculously expensive for funerals. Thousands is needed.
I buried my mam 17 months ago Deborah, according to her wishes which was no fancy coffin or frills, no choir or hotel reception, all she wanted was a decent wake and her family to be there to wish her well on her journey to wherever that may be. Still cost 5 grand.
Big difference in the cost of these 700 to 2000?
Did you have a free bar or something similar Molly?
Molly €5,000 seems to be the minimum for a burial. I know it’s cheaper for a cremation.
No Colonel, no booze, everyone came back to the house for tea and sambos, but my brother (an English lad) was amazed that it cost 250€ for the priest to say mass.
I must correct myself, the wake did have booze and minerals and memories with laughter but I didn’t include that in the 5 grand total, that night was our gift to her.
Whoooooa! Stop the horses. The figures shown by county barely hit 10 grand. But €28 million in 5 years??? That’s just under €6 million p.a. ÷ 26 counties!! This looks like a Lagos style honeypot to me. Precisely where is that money going please investigative journalists at le Journal please? ?
Lagos style honeypot?….someone has to die for someone to claim it and even then it goes straight to the funeral director towards the cost of the funeral. If you’re looking for ‘pocket stuffing’ you’re looking in the wrong place and time.
That 28 million includes money given to struggling families and people who cannot afford funerals to fund th cost. The county figures are those who have no family etc who can sort the funeral for them.
That’s very sad that you would have no family left at the end of your life .
Another way of looking at it would be… “I’ve outlived the ba#tards… I win”.
Some people choose to be alone through life and it’s only fitting they leave the same way. I wouldn’t get too upset about it.
Grant , where ?, what grant ? where do I apply, What do I have to do to get it, can I bury myself and keep the money ?
You’re either a farmer or a member of the traveling community…
Wasn’t there a farmer who won a landmark case 2 or 3 years ago allowing himself to be buried on his own land? I think there was.
John Burke the artist is interred upright somewhere on the comeragh mountains, with his arse to Cork looking at Tipp. He was my sister in laws brother in law, never liked the man.
I don’t know why people are so concerned with what happens to them when they die. You can feed me to animals in the zoo for all I care, I’ll be dead.
Me too! Just make sure any useful organs of mine are donated
Same here :)
Same :)
To be honest I think it’s more of a ritual for your family to say goodbye.
i want to be stuffed
We are all destined to be forgotten.
How many of the one million people living in Rome during the time of Julius Caesar are remembered?
None at all.
How many of the hundreds of thousands of infantrymen in Napoleon’s armies are remembered?
None at all.
Get over it.
We will all be forgotten.
P.S.
How many people know who their great-great-great grandmother was?
Very few.
Forgotten.
(Being a terrible murderer helps if you want to be “remembered”).
I’m going to get cremated and spread my ashes in various different graveyards around Dublin.
Crosses and requiem masses are to be avoided. Paupers need a will to escape such lunacy.
Depending on their beliefs
Well Christianity didn’t offer them much while alive in fairness. Wrong to take away their choices in death.
Well the main benefit of faith is for the next life not this one
Funny enough, I actually want burial so I can naturally decompose. I feel as a meat-eater, I take life to sustain mine, to me the natural thing is to give back to other life when I’m done.
Exclusive?
My thoughts exactly. Thought this was going to be some kind of scoop
A little proof reading goes a long way!
One of the nice things about living in rural Ireland is the fact that people here do still care about their friends and neighbours. When it comes to the passing people do turn out to funerals regardless of denomination or whether or not they had money to pay for the thing.
You certainly won’t find that in cities or in England.
Throw my body in a skip when I’m gone. I don’t have much use for it when I’m dead
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