Rocking Out Beyond the Grave

The old saying goes, “You can’t take it with you.” Turns out, as far as your iPod, Blackberry or Gameboy are concerned, that’s not entirely true. Funeral directors in the US are reporting more and more cases where the deceased or relatives are requesting that an individual be buried with some kind of mobile gadget, usually an Apple product, but Blackberrys and Gameboys as well.

Reports have surfaced of phones left turned on and powered up so that friends could get in touch with them in the afterlife; of iPods playing music to the deceased during the funeral; and of phones set with a specific ringtone that are called while the casket is being lowered into the ground, the music fading out as the loved one is buried.

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