Burials with smartphones and Gameboys
This bizarre quote from an MSNBC non-story about floaters, bloaters, rotters and kickers wanting to be buried with their cell phones caught my attention:
“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.”
The follow-up question that never comes: "Was he buried with batteries too?" Is he intending on playing it down there? If so, for how long?
Also: it strikes me the best reason to bury yourself with your mobile phone would be to secretly give the SIM card to a surviving friend and have them carry out some bitching prank calls.
Bury Me With My Cell Phone [MSNBC]
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... or leave the SIM card inside and have someone call you during the procession – see if your coffin bearers have good nerves :)
Goddammit John Brownlee! You just gave away macguffin in an upcoming episode of Psych.
How would an upgrade plan work? Like say I die with my PSP, will my offspring need to sacrifice a new one once it comes out so that I may play it from beyond the grave?
oh wow. The slippery slope to becoming cyborgs becomes slipperier.
We'll probably see spike in grave robberies in 50 years when those gadgets becomes antique.
Thank you GARR & Mr B. My Funeral plans just get better & better.
Anyway, what's so weird about being buried with stuff? Archaeology is based on people in the past being buried with stuff :)
C'mon ppl this is the modern version of the bell-on-the-string!