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People Are Being Buried With Mobile Devices

This is a strange riff on the self-identification that comes from using cell phones and blackberries:

[from BBC NEWS | Technology | Handsets get taken to the grave]

More people than ever are asking to be buried or cremated with their mobile phones when they die, say researchers.

I wonder what the per minute charge is for Death In and Death Out calling?

Posted by Stowe Boyd
March 29, 2006
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