A marvellous story on the BBC site today which shows that the mobile phone has gone from being an indispensable part of life to being an indispensable part of death too.

Apparently there is an increasing trend for people to take their mobile with them when they go to meet their maker. Like the Egyptian pharoes, we want to take our precious items with us, including mobile phones, and apparently in one case even a laptop and Blackberry too.

It seems that the undertakers are not always aware that their 'late' customers still have their mobile phones in their pockets. In fact the trend was discovered when mobile phones started exploding during cremation.

Even more worrying is the thought that following burials, graveyards could be filled with the sound of mobile phones ringing from deep beneath the ground. Not as worrying as one being answered though.