Taking the mobile obsession to its logical conclusion, more and more people in Ireland are being buried with their mobile phones.
There’s two schools of thought for the reason.
Sometimes the phone goes along as a treasured personal possession (“you’ll have to prize it from my cold, dead hands”), much the same way as a footie shirt or a favourite pair of shoes.
Others want to ensure that if they wake up 6 feet under, they can call for help. Assuming that they have survived the evisceration involved in the embalming process and that they can get reception in their new subterranean home.
Families of the deceased are apparently warned to turn them off or to silent, so they don’t start ringing during the burial service. I imagine that this must have happened more than once, for the warnings to be given; “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust….” der der der dring….
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