TYT: What Would You Want To Be Buried With? Your Cellphone?

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 04:43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzVkAGuEn8E   Posted on YouTube: January 01, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 06, 2009 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 926

 
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[Taverner]

1. Why yes, yes I do

That way if it was all a big misunderstanding, I can call someone for help

:P

[hlthe2b]

2. You might want a airhole then with a long pipe to the surface....

Screw the cell phone...LOL

[Taverner]

3. But doesn't that violate some health code?

When your body breaks down and becomes liquid, it's not a very clean process

[hlthe2b]

4. Hon... if you've been embalmbed there's no use for the airhole...

But if they throw ya in and "fergit to check ya over real good" that pipe might just be the thing!

[rpannier]

8. With my plan I'd have a problem with using my cellphone for help

But I would probably be outside my roaming area and the charges would be brutal.
Although with free weekend minutes I could wait until Saturday to call for help

[Donnachaidh]

5. Try a Safety Coffin -- long history of people worrying about being buried alive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin

A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that he has been buried alive. A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th and 19th centuries and variations on the theme are still available today.

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The first recorded safety coffin was constructed on the orders of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick before his death in 1792. He had a window installed to allow light in, an air tube to provide a supply of fresh air, and instead of having the lid nailed down he had a lock fitted. In a special pocket of his shroud he had two keys, one for the coffin lid and a second for the tomb door.

[liberalmuse]

6. This is where cremation becomes a good thing.

There are too many horror stories from the middle ages of people been buried alive (as told by body snatchers, a most reliable source, who saw the scratch marks underneath the lids of coffins).

[Seldona]

7. "Sorry I can't answer the phone right now, as I am dead."

I can't imagine someone calling my dad as we put him into the ground. I would have been horrified. Then again if it is part of a person's last wishes. Are people leaving voice mail recordings before they die? That is odd.

[OhioChick]

9. How Ridiculous!

I'm getting cremated....much cheaper. :)

[TlalocW]

10. As always, I can find a cartoon related to the subject matter

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TlalocW

[Azlady]

11. That is flat out just too weird!

[formercia]

12. I want a coffin shaped like a cell phone

like they do in some parts of Africa, where the deceased is buried in a casket representative of their lifestyle or wishes of one.

It should display this number: 733 968 4355

Some ideas already considered:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=coffin+cellphone&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

[Jack Rabbit]

13. In the tradition of the late folksinger, Lee Hayes

I want to be cremated and have my ashes placed in a compost pile.

[badgerpup]

15. Something similar...

Cremated, then ashes used in planting tree in a forest.
Can't find the site...

Did find one for turning ashes into diamonds. I'm sorry, but that's just...creepy. :yoiks:
IMHO.

[Prophet 451]

14. I user to have recurring nightmares about that

When I was about ten, I read some accounts of people buried alive and for years afterward, I had recurring nightmares about the possibility (it doesn't help that I suffer from ASP, a condition that occasionally causes temporary paralysis while waking). At one point, I was determined that I would be buried with an oxygen tank and a cellphone. Now, I just have a clause in my will (unenforceable but hopefully someone will listen) requesting that people make quite certain that I'm dead, preferably by inflicting some kind of very terminal injury.

[formercia]

16. You should watch the Mythbusters episode on the subject.

It will make you want to get cremated.
The Soviet GRU (Military Intelligence)was known to bury people alive. Normally they would put people in the oven feet-first while still alive but one discredited GRU officer stated that he preferred to be buried in a coffin. He got his wish. When he awoke, he was already in his coffin, underground.

[Prophet 451]

17. Dude, I'm sending you my therapy bill... n/t