Disturbing trend or sign of the times? I suppose it really depends on who you would care to ask. Speaking for myself, I think that taking your phone to the grave has to be the dumbest thing that I have heard of in a very long time.

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

The trend, which began in South Africa, has now spread to a number of countries, including Ireland, Australia, Ghana, and the US.

Martin Raymond, director of international trend-spotting think-tank, The Future Laboratory said that this had started off “in the realm of the urban myth”, but was fast becoming fact.

“You hear about it, the idea that people are being buried with their mobile phones, but you can’t really believe it,” he told the BBC World Service’s Culture Shock programme. Source: BBC

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