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Take Your Tech With You Into the Afterlife

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Take Your Tech With You Into the Afterlife

Tech-connected individuals are no longer content to keep their cell phones close by at every waking moment; according to an article published by MSNBC, many of these individuals request to be buried with their gadgets.

As Noelle Potvin, a family service counselor for Hollywood Forever in California, tells MSNBC, “It seems that everyone under 40 who dies takes their cell phone with them. It’s a trend with BlackBerrys, too. We even had one guy who was buried with his Game Boy.”

This bizarre burial trend isn’t limited to the United States, however. London-based think tank The Future Laboratory also spotted the desire for the deceased to be interred with their cell phones throughout the UK, South Africa and Australia.

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Dec 23, 08 - 2,531 Views







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THREE WAYS TO REACT: vote, favorite or comment about Getting Buried with Your Cell Phone.

Sandra Winn on Dec 23, 08  423 Trends   1,249 Comments
Wow, people really love their cell-phones don't they?
Sandra Winn on Dec 23, 08  423 Trends   1,249 Comments 0
Going Like Sixty on Dec 23, 08  2,882 Trends   1,499 Comments
Sick. and. Stupid. and probably not true. Sorry, no cell battery lasts that long, the worms would eat it. (this from a person who doesn't own a cell phone.) Somebody will hack this number and she will get slammed. Stoopid.
Going Like Sixty on Dec 23, 08  2,882 Trends   1,499 Comments 0
Marissa Brassfield on Dec 23, 08  3,613 Trends   4,284 Comments
Yeah, I believe that he was buried with it, but not necessarily that his cell battery lived for two years. That'd be an awesome marketing ploy, though... I bet the battery died and it just rings and goes straight to voicemail, and that's how people leave messages.
Marissa Brassfield on Dec 23, 08  3,613 Trends   4,284 Comments 0
Katie Cordrey on Dec 23, 08  766 Trends   461 Comments
In the 18th & 19th centuries, there were a number of devices installed or buried with the dead that were intended to allow a person buried prematurely to signal that he had not yet met with demise. The purpose of a 3-day 'wake' among the Irish was to give sufficient time for someone poisoned by bad home-brewed whiskey to wake-up and avoid being buried alive. Just think how much ritual we would have lost if THEY’d all had cell phones!
Katie Cordrey on Dec 23, 08  766 Trends   461 Comments 0
Going Like Sixty on Dec 24, 08  2,882 Trends   1,499 Comments
@Marissa: thanks for clarifying! Of course that's it!
Going Like Sixty on Dec 24, 08  2,882 Trends   1,499 Comments 0
Going Like Sixty on Dec 24, 08  2,882 Trends   1,499 Comments
I called! Somebody answered! (wrong number) and then it was the dead guy and the mailbox is full!
Going Like Sixty on Dec 24, 08  2,882 Trends   1,499 Comments 0


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