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Increasingly, the deceased are bringing their cell phones and other PDAs with them to the great beyond.

"It seems that everyone under 40 who dies takes their cell phone with them," said Noelle Potvin, a counselor for a Hollywood, California funeral home. While there are no official statistics kept on this phenomenon, funeral directors all over the world are reporting it as a trend.

Sometimes, friends and family leave the departed messages during the funeral. One New York woman went so far as to continue paying her late husband's cell phone bill so she could call him -- and graciously engraved the phone number on his headstone, so others could also make a booty call to the afterlife.

Unfortunately for the grieving widow (and for any buried-alive scenarios) most cell phone services don't offer reception six feet under.

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