Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

...and I have certainly never seen a young girl passed out on the pavement outside a bar, as I did recently in Liverpool... Oh dear, you've found out how I spend my weekends. What must a girl do for a wee bit of discretion nowadays?! Seriously though, the binge drinking is a purely British afflicti...

E.J., are you using family notices in the 'Births, Marriages and Deaths' bit of the paper rather than the more formal obituaries as carried by the broadsheets? You could always do a bit of on-line research, e.g. do notices in, say, South Wales tend to be more 'flowery and gushing' than those in, pe...

Never found enough time during break for a brew AND a roll-up. The roll-up usually won. The solution is an instant coffee. Much quicker. Tea is foul anyway. :D I think for many the 'browns' still wins..... those poor souls who trek across big side every spare minute of the day I'm sure will confirm...

cereal, sure, it comes out of packets. i doubt even Fairfield could mess that one up. the toast was usually dire though. hardly rocket science to 'cook'. ...but the breaktime -self-made- toast was heavenly. still light and soft on the inside, golden brown and crusty on the outside. lashings of NPO ...

My personal view for what it is worth is that no death is easy to cope with. However it is SLIGHTLY easier if you have time to prepare for the death. My Mother in Law collapsed and died in the street, having just left the theatre with my sister in law and niece, at the age of 65 completely unexpect...

I too find the idea of this research interesting. There are many valid comments on your proposed research methodology which you may take on board. One thing I learnt form Mr James (Ratty) who I always thought was a great Chemistry teacher and now realise in fact that he was a brilliant teacher: The...

I don't think you can assess grief from a newspaper obit. there is a 'house style' that they follow. My aunt died recently having emigrated to Oz many years ago. My Mum wanted to put an obit in their home town paper, she had to provide a copy of her death certificate and it cost 40p a word so it ju...

Katharine wrote:Looks as if Emma Jane has removed the post I was replying to, while I wrote.

Apologies... I had submitted the same post twice and was removing one!

Are you using just one paper or more? I would imagine that if you regularly read the obits in a particular paper, you would think in 'their' terms. If you don't read it regularly then you might say something quite different. I am intrigued by the idea of what you are doing and how you are doing it....

Emma, I had written a fairly lengthy and (for me) sensible reply, but as I was about to post it my dog hit my PC's off button with his nose, so it was all lost. I know this sounds a bit like "my housemaster's cat was sick on my essay during break, honestly", but it's the truth. I have to ...

Euterpe13 wrote:what if you get " finally "?

In what sense?

Richard Ruck wrote:Does cause of death get considered?

In a way - most obituary notices don't tell you cause of death, so I'm using the adjectives (peacefully, suddenly, tragically, etc)

Richard Ruck wrote:So, it's to do with potential, not results achieved! I see......

Well, results play a part. For example, a 90yo woman who dies having had 5 kids, and the grand and great-grand children will have a higher value than someone of the same age who has had less children, etc.

My wife and I have no kids, and have no plans to reproduce, so I assume we both have a Reproductive Value of 0. Presumably, then, if either of us were to die it would be impossible for anyone to grieve for us. How would this system work,for example, in the case of a gay man dying in his 20s.? I sup...

Richard Ruck wrote:Is this when the jiggery isn't always followed by the pokery?

Indeed...