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Can You Hear Me Now?

December 20, 2008 urngarden.com

Being buried with a cell phone is the second most requested item to be placed in a loved one’s casket, immediately after a request to be cremated with a pet’s ashes.

“We had a young man die this past summer and they put his cell phone in the casket for the viewing and it rang constantly,” says Frank Perman, of Frank R. Perman Funeral Home, Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pa. “It was turned to silent, but you could see the phone light up so you knew people were calling. And they were leaving messages.

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“Some people will call the deceased just as they’re lowering the coffin into the ground,” he says. “It’ll be prearranged and you’ll hear a faint ring.

Cell phones are the most popular, but I-Pods and Game Boys are also going to the grave.

Funeral professionals are only too happy to comply these days, as long as people don’t try to cremate gadgets along with anyone’s remains.

“You can’t cremate any kind of electronic device like a cell phone or hearing aid or pacemaker,the battery will explode. If a family wants the cell phone with a person who’s being cremated, I’ll put it in the urn afterwards.”

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*according to a survey of 100,000 people last year by the British charity Age Concern (sort of the AARP of England)

Filed Under: ash scattering, Confessions, cremation, funeral service, Memorial Service Ideas, mental health, Pets Tagged With: cell phones in the casket, ideas for memorial service, ring-tone tributes

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  1. Erica says

    December 20, 2008 at 12:32 PM

    At first I thought this was the modern equivalent of the bell-on-string, so the deceased could call out if they miraculously revived, and scream “where am I and why is it so dark!”

    But from the whole leaving messages thing, it seems more like a way to keep in touch?

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