Last call for the dead?

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<p>"We take them with us to the dinner table, the bedroom, even the bathroom stall. But in recent years, some of us have started taking our beloved cell phones someplace really startling: the grave.</p>

<p>“It seems that everyone under 40 who dies takes their cell phone with them,” says Noelle Potvin, family service counselor for Hollywood Forever, a funeral home and cemetery in Hollywood, Calif. “It’s a trend with BlackBerrys, too. We even had one guy who was buried with his Game Boy…"
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<p>Obviously, some people can’t accept that being dead means you’re …dead!</p>

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<p>Unbelievable…</p>

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<p>Creepy.
Archeologists of the 23rd century looking for artifacts of the 21st century will be very pleased…</p>

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<p>I think this may be happening because once rigor mortis has set in, it can be very difficult to pry the cell phone out of the person’s hand, especially if it is pressed to the ear.</p>

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<p>Not me. I hate the danged thing. When I get a call on it, someone wants something from me. In the grave, I’ll hopefully be free of being on call.</p>

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<p>Hunt: laugh out loud moment of the day, thank you…</p>

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<p>My former boss thought his MIL should be buried at White Flint Mall so that she would be ensured that her daughters would be visiting her grave regularly. I guess these days, it would be with cell phone in hand.</p>

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<p>I think if I were to die now, and be buried with my cell phone, my teenagers would dig me up to ask why I didn’t pick up.</p>

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<p>Mine would dig me up to get a working cell phone, as quickly as they lose theirs.</p>

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<p>Well…I just posted on another thread about a kid who died at Dartmouth which made me very sad. But this makes me laugh. So in the spirit of trying to feel better and get back into a good mood…I have to say…seeing my MIL at the Mall would be like having to go to the Madame Toussaud’s Wax Museum every day for the rest of my life and see her there…arrrrrrgh! (May her soul Rest in Peace, mind you.) </p>

<p>Though when I am dead and gone I am sure a LOT of people will have a celebration! LOL.</p>

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<p>With many people these days, I think it is surgically implanted anyway - why go to the trouble of removing it after the death?</p>

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<p>So…have any gone off in the casket during the funeral?</p>

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<p>I’ve been to funerals where someone’s cell phone have gone off, but never in the casket. That would be something.</p>

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<p>hmmmnn… you have me thinking…this could be a new way of disposing of those items they no longer take at the dump…batteries, old paint cans etc…just throw them in the casket…LOL…</p>

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<p>^^hmmmnn… you have me thinking…this could be a new way of disposing of those items they no longer take at the dump…batteries, old paint cans etc…just throw them in the casket…LOL…</p>

<p>Those Egyptians and Chinese had the right idea all those centuries ago. Bury the whole household with 'em!</p>

<p>The thought of a cell phone going off in a casket and everyone just sort of sitting there until it stops ringing… sorry, but I have to laugh. I think I will request this at my own funeral. Must arrange for someone to call my cell phone. Too bad I won’t be around to enjoy it though.</p>

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<p>My ring tone is the country song “Live like you were dying”. hehe. Not sure if that is the real title, but it might be interesting if that ring tone went off…</p>