Oh, come on! Cell phones in the grave? Is there no place you can go and not listen to the guy next to you yacking?
Handsets get taken to the grave
More people than ever are asking to be buried or cremated with their mobile phones when they die, say researchers.
The trend, which began in South Africa, has now spread to a number of countries, including Ireland, Australia, Ghana, and the US.
Martin Raymond, director of international trend-spotting think-tank, The Future Laboratory said that this had started off “in the realm of the urban myth”, but was fast becoming fact.
“People wanted to be buried with the totems that they felt represented their lifestyle,” he explained.
“We came across one guy who asked to be buried with his mobile phone and his Blackberry, and also with his laptop.”
He added that in many cases, being buried with your phone is part of what he termed limelight funerals, people wanting to be buried like celebrities.
I want go into the ground with my ipod and d70
It’s a backup brain for some people.
Can’t put your little tech toys down?
Get a life.
watch out for grave robbers!
I was expecting you to say people figured out they can overcome the fear of being buried alive by requesting to have their cell phone with them – just in case.
Sounds kind of pathetic. Buried with a totem of your god?
My apple 2….yeah baby!
Why not?
Most of the stuff we own now is obsolete when we buy it so who’s going to miss it when we take it to the grave with us?
Besides, some future palentologist or archeologist might find these and wonder if we, like the ancient Egyptians, thought they might help us attain immortality in the afterlife.
G
Well if you’re going to dump $5K+ on a casket….
Now that’s a dead ringer. Seriously. They used to bury folks with a string to a bell in case they managed to come back to life and ring the bell… They’d better make sure the battery is charged, though.
I want to be buried the same way I was born: naked.
See, I don’t want to be buried. Well, not in a casket anyway.
I want to be buried in the Great Salt Lake Desert, west of the Great Salt Lake in the middle of the salt flats. That way my body will be naturally mumified.
Barring that, I think cremation is the way to go, but a cell phone won’t hold up to the heat.
Never mind, I’m not dying.
G
Forget the burial and $5K casket. Just roast me until I’m crispier then a crispy critter. Blow my ashes in what ever direction the wind is blowing that day.
those nuts who come to the door saying the world is coming to an end ar right.
the effing world is coming to an end.
cell phones? jesus fucking crhist. we’re hosed.
It would be funnier than anything to be buried with the my cell phone. Imagine the fun you could have with the message in voice mail: I can;t come to the phone. I’m dead.
Before you die, you dream up some imaginative voice mails and have a loving survivor change them. “Go to hell George. I never liked you when I was alive. I’m not taking your calls now.”
Buried with your laptop ! Now not only Windows will be crippled with worms !!!
…buried with a cellphone….only if it can be rectally inserted, as it should have been IN LIFE…when the dorks were idly chatting **loudly** making the rest of us listen to how ignorant, stupid and shallow they were.
R.I.P.