Fears RIP.ie Death Notice Charge May Turn Irish Funerals Into A Money Racket

IN A FIRST for the funeral industry in Ireland, many stakeholders are now suggesting vulnerable families processing the loss of a loved one could be preyed upon and have their grief exploited in the name of profit by bad faith actors.

This fear comes with the news that the RIP.ie website, purchased this year by The Irish Times, will begin charging a €100 fee for death notices.

“RIP.ie would want to cop on, that’s fierce bad,” said one funeral director who knows just the phrase to use to steer grieving families away from all the cheapest available elements of a funeral package.

“And that phrase is ‘if you really loved them you’d go for our deluxe premium gold mourning package'” they added.

In retaliation to the new charge, Irish people around the country are gathering in protest and have confirmed they will boycott dying until RIP.ie reverse their decision.

“That’s awful so it is,” offered a priest who can paid upwards of €150 for doing the thing he’s supposedly driven to do as a calling as he is not motivated by money.

Florists, printers, musicians, car leasers, hotels, restaurants and bars among others have all condemned RIP.ie’s decision to take a look grieving families and think ‘they could be paying more’.

“As a firm that charges by the individual tissue handed out to grieving widows, we know an insensitive price gouge when we see one,” offered one dissenting funeral director who would now have to regretfully up the fee they already charged for placing an RIP notice.