Til Death Do Us Part?

I want to get off morbid subjects but for some reason I am plagued with a sick, sick sense of humor.  

As I was driving home tonight,  I got to thinking about something an author said regarding why he wanted to write books.  One of the reasons he gave, was it gave him a sense of immortality.   I pondered this for a few minutes.  And from there my friends,   my thoughts tumbled down a very steep hill... leaving me thinking of  death, coffins, finality, archeology, and...the I PAD.    Crazy shit, I know... But what can I say?    

Will people who own I Pads, I phones, etc  request to be laid to rest with  all their beloved  tech toys. Why not?  I thought of all the money spent on funerals, caskets, making the dead look prettier than when they were alive and yet another weird but funny thought came to me.   (I can just see people at the wake....looking at the deceased and saying.... He... just doesn't look like him self...  without his I-Pad in his hands.)

When I look around, all I see is people looking down, thumbing  away on their phones and other devices.  (What would we do without those very useful opposable  thumbs?)    It only seems logical that in the next 5 years people will be so... attached to their devices,  that these wonderful devices will actually become an extension of the person.   I bet people will make wills instructing the bereaved  to have their devices  placed in their hands for the viewing.   If this occurs, will we be able to pry their most cherished I- Pad or I Phone from their defunct hands?


I read an article not too long ago where some person who died had it in their will to have their ashes interned  with their pre-deceased pet in a pet cemetery.  (don't look at me that way....)   Unfortunately,  the pet cemetery had changed the rules this upset the family of the person who had died.  And I think they are still trying to figure out how to sneak Pa Pa John's cremains  in with Fee Fee the poodle. 

I thought this was only one such case of this bizarre trend but apparently I was wrong.  There are actually many dead people entombed with their  dead pets.   ( I mean....dig the hole and cover me with dirt!)  LIMG that means laughing in my grave for all you acronym novices.  

  And after all, it really wouldn't be so strange (when you think about it)  after dying to be buried with all your tech toys.  The  kings and pharaohs of Egypt were entombed with  their most beloved things.