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If you find yourself at a cemetery visiting a dear departed loved one and you hear a phone ringing from somewhere below your feet, don't worry.

You're not necessarily getting a call from the great beyond.

Under the headline, "Trend: Dead Take Cell Phones With," Robert Roy Britt reports on the Website Livescience.com that more people are getting buried with their cell phones.

Britt picked up on the trend from an msnbc.com story, which reports,
"While statistics on cell phone burials don't exist, funeral professionals agree it's a fairly common occurrence -- at least among the tech-savvy and the young -- and some believe we're only seeing the tip of the wired-to-the-end trend."

Britt notes that those who are cremated or buried at sea would probably get lousy reception.

I'm wondering how those departed techies can rest in peace if their cell phones keep ringing? But then they probably couldn't hear their phones over their iPods anyway.

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