I Phone Dead People

[Gene Steinberg]

OK, a new way for the wireless carriers to take your money.

Now Verizon Wireless is evidently involved in special afterlife packages, where you pay $55 a month to have a cell phone placed in your love one's coffin. That way, you can leave them messages of love and hope -- and give the carrier a little holiday present of unearned profits.

Here's Wired's take on the matter:

Folks Take Cellphones To The Grave | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

 

[Tommy Allison]

OK, a new way for the wireless carriers to take your money.

Now Verizon Wireless is evidently involved in special afterlife packages, where you pay $55 a month to have a cell phone placed in your love one's coffin. That way, you can leave them messages of love and hope -- and give the carrier a little holiday present of unearned profits.

Here's Wired's take on the matter:

Folks Take Cellphones To The Grave | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

You gotta be shitting me.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Indeed, a 24-hour cable news channel did a segment on this very topic.

 

[spookchild]

I guess they had better include a charger and wire the grave for electricity too. $55 a month for a dead cellphone won't do anyone any good.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

I guess they had better include a charger and wire the grave for electricity too. $55 a month for a dead cellphone won't do anyone any good.

I though about that.

 

[Ally]

Please don't tell me that people are going to buy this! What if the dead person talks back then what? People will do anything to make a buck!

 

[Tommy Allison]

Please don't tell me that people are going to buy this! What if the dead person talks back then what? People will do anything to make a buck!

I see an opportunity for a LOT of practical jokes with this.

Also, sometimes inactive phone numbers get recycled, and wouldn't it be funny to get one of those calls?

I think I'd have a heart attack if the dead actually used a phone to call me.

 

[Aaron LeClair]

I hate phones while I'm alive. Any dolt that puts one with me when I'm dead is going to get haunted. Give that money you'd spend to charity. Or the Paracast.

 

[Tommy Allison]

I hate phones while I'm alive. Any dolt that puts one with me when I'd dead is going to get haunted. Give that money you'd spend to charity. Or the Paracast.

Just for that, we're taking up a collection to put a cellphone in your coffin. Don't even think about getting cremated. We'll stick one in your jar if you do.

hehehehehe

 

[Gil Bavel]

Kind of silly, when you think about the the fact that under six feet of dirt, a coffin is more or less a Faraday cage...

 

[status4]

it begs the question, "Can you hear me now?"

Wouldn't it suck if they didn't get any bars down there?

"no signal"

 

[skunkape]

If I ever live to be a ghost, I'm just gonna make fart noises. That's how you can verify it's me communicating. The stink is just your own upper lip.

 

[Bixyboo]

That's a funny joke, Gene! LOL! Like others said...it'd die soon (like the person already is! ). But Hey! maybe then they could use it on The Other Side! I could see it now, GhostHunters gets an intriguing EVP...'Pay my biiiiiilllllll....' 'Neeeeed annnnooooother baaaaaattttteryyyyyy, Ooooooo'