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According to the
Belfast Telegraph, Ireland's obsession with mobile phones has sunk to new depths, literally, as a growing number of people are taking their mobiles six feet under with them to the grave.
A small but growing segment of today's dearly departed are preparing themselves for the afterlife with the latest electronic gadgets, with mobiles at the top of the list, according to funeral director Seamas Griffin of Kirwan's funeral homes in Dublin.
... "With the recent explosion in popularity of mobile phones and other personal electronic gadgets, people now see them as extensions of themselves that will follow them to the grave.
Some people, especially young girls, live their lives by their mobiles and feel it's part of them," he said.
"Some other people may be terrified they'll wake up in the coffin, so they take along a mobile to ring for help to get them out," he said. However, certain rules would apply, including making sure the mobile is switched off or on silent before it accompanies the deceased.
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Posted: 2005-11-15 21:18:11
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What's next? An electrical outlet 6ft. deep?
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Posted: 2005-11-15 22:06:31
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i can imagine @tigerente with his 100 pieces /// collection
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Posted: 2005-11-15 22:07:59
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This just reminded me of the
Mobilephone gravestone thread from a while back.
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Posted: 2005-11-16 14:21:02
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Look what i found
We’ll meet you at the cemetry gates
Now this strikes us as kind of morose and tacky, but Robert Barrows filed a patent application for a tombstone with built-in touch screen so the dead person can leave a video message for posterity. But do we really want our gravestones to be multimedia entertainment centers? Of course! (What? Fine, just kidding.) At least we’ll have to give him the benefit of the doubt that these things are going to be solar powered with solid state electronics—we’d really hate to think of a hard drive crashing during a funeral ceremony, when someone is announcing the punchline to their life. But we’d really love to see what kind of stuff they would install on historic tombstones.
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Posted: 2005-11-16 14:30:20
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they dont want to miss any calls just in case.
i wonder what their voice mail recording will be like?
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Posted: 2005-11-16 14:44:22
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Can you get reception 6 feet under?
What about live streaming of the reading of the will, when your rellies find out you left your millions to the cat?
What happens if you get cremated? Does some dodgy teen down at the crematorium pilfer your W800i and flog it off on eBay?
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Posted: 2005-11-16 14:48:03
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This is hilarious!!! I've sent this thread around the office, I work in Dublin and nobody has even heard about this!!! I know I'm bringing my Phones with me
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Posted: 2005-11-16 14:50:36
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