Reply #10: Dammit...where did I put that cremation phone??? [View All]

I think someone borrowed it :o

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/print.asp?page=2005%5C02%5C06%5Cstory_6-2-2005_pg9_1



A phone line to dear departed

People who feel the need to talk to their near and dear even after they have passed away can now do so quite literally, thanks to a special mobile phone invented by a German who wanted to keep in touch with his late mother.

The system, patented by Juergen Broether and on sale since last December, consists of a one-way phone and loudspeaker device that can be buried close to the person’s coffin, and will transmit a voice message into the tomb for a period of up to a year.


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As regards his own use of the device, Broether, who is 64, claimed that he still had a few words to say to his late mum from time to time, even six years after her death. He called “to tell her things that might interest her,” he added.