More deceased taking cellphones, PMPs to their graves

It's been happening for centuries in one form or another, but packing in a favorite diecast car or trophy just seems a bit different than sending your loved one six feet under with a BlackBerry 7290. According to the London-based The Future Laboratory think tank, the amount of people arranging to have their cellphones or portable media players buried with them is on the rise, with a family service counselor for Hollywood Forever funeral home and cemetery stating that "it seems that everyone under 40 who dies takes their cellphone with them." Truth be told, the psychology behind it isn't all that odd; after all, in today's world, mobile phones go a long way to connecting one person with other loved ones. Just make sure to not go down with a Vertu or the like -- wouldn't want to get unwillingly exhumed, now would we?

[Image courtesy of cc275, via The Inquirer]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2008 12:07PM]

It's kinda like what the Pharoahs used to do, they took stuff with them "to the other side."

Personally, if I had an iPhone I'd pass it on to a best friend, son, etc.

But, no matter how rich or poor you are, we enter in this world with nothing, and we leave with nothing. Kinda makes you think about what's really important in life.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2008 1:04PM]

My friend's parents buried him with Call of Duty 4 cause he used to play with his brother's all the time.

[Wwhat Posted Dec 17th 2008 1:42PM]

I hear some people insist on being cremated with their sony batteries.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2008 3:31PM]

Too bad you can't still get the do-it-yourself cremation kit from ipod.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2008 1:45PM]

Hope they are burying folks with pay-as-you-go plans or else the monthly fees are gonna really add up!

Might as well bury me with a rented tux on as well.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 18th 2008 8:10AM]

Though the speech is right, we can't left our cell yet...:)
For work!!...nothing more...:)

Rohit
Widewebway.com

[kingu Posted Dec 17th 2008 2:10PM]

"He loved that ipod, I just whish he'd take it off when walking in traffic."

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2008 2:23PM]

Did anyone else instantly want to find some of these phone numbers, spoof them, and then start making calls?


Man, I'm a sick bastard...

But I want to do it sooooooo badly.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2008 4:20PM]

Personally, I'd just rather donate my body to science. Either nothing will happen, or they will use my brain to power a robot effectively becoming a Robobrain.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2008 4:49PM]

The most boring Twitter updates ever...."Yup, still dead."

[JustEric Posted Dec 17th 2008 5:38PM]

Screw that. I spend every waking moment of my life surrounded by technology. I want to take "rest in peace" literally.

Time to update the will to include a clause that nothing is to buried with me. Just me in a nice suit and that's the end of it.

[Eternal Density Posted Dec 17th 2008 5:51PM]

Is there a charging cable running six feet under, or do they use inductive charging? Because you wouldn't want the battery to die too.

Also: Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, bananaphone!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 17th 2008 9:26PM]

"Honey....your grandmothers on the phone.." "......she can wait, shes dead"

[MikeWard1701 Posted Dec 19th 2008 7:00AM]

"Your calling plan include the afterlife?"
NCIS: Dead Man Talking

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 22nd 2008 2:49PM]

Bad choice of photo guys, they're baby caskets. If you'd ever been to a child's funeral you would know that.