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Try the ‘iGrave’: Technology Reaches Out from Beyond

Tech Goes Beyond the Grave With New App and Casket Locating GPS

Want to know exactly where a loved one is buried? Funeral directors at at least one cemetery in America are using GPS technology to help family and friends locate the exact position their kin in natural cemeteries, or those without headstones.

The Daily Mail reports “iGrave” is being used at The Preserve, a natural cemetery in Lafayette, Ind., where bodies in caskets, those buried without caskets and those cremated are buried with a disc the size of a hockey puck that will allow them to be found by family and grounds workers:

The battery powered devices last for several years, and are roughly the size of a hockey puck.

They are based on systems usually used to locate buried water pipes or gas mains.

“It’s like reading a bar code,” said Joe Canaday of Hippensteel Funeral Service and Crematory.

The Daily Mail reports that providing mourners with GPS coordinates of where those laid to rest in natural burial grounds is not uncommon but The Preserve is the first known to be using tracking devices.

In a separate article, the Daily Mail reported recently about the new “If I Die” Facebook application, which allows for pre-programmed messages and posts to be updated on Facebook by you from beyond the grave. The Daily Mail reports that with the free app you appoint three trustees who will confirm your death before any of your post-mortem updates go online.

Watch the trailer for the app that makes sure your last words are heard:

Comments (22)

  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:09am

    The last thing I will do in my life in this World will be running to tackle the reaper when I see him. It’s the last thing we do and it should be done with gusto and enthusiasm. I suspect this will be a first for the reaper! High fives at the pearly gates!

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:32am

    If your biggest concern about dying is updating your Facebook page…you might need to take a break from Facebook.

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    • rpp
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 1:51am

      You have got that right. I encourage all who have not done so to immediately take measures to mitigate the invasion of your privacy; join me in deactivating your Facebook account.

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  • Warphead
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:43am

    This is rather ironic now that I really am sick and may not be around much longer. A joke I have often told over the years. “What are the last words I want said at my funeral?“ ”LOOK! He’s moving”
    Yeah, it’s still funny.
    But seriously, as someone who has passed before and been brought back I can say this. When you leave (at least for me) there is nothing behind you that even remotely makes you look back. So any new gadgets to go in your casket, well they’re for those you leave behind because you actually could care less. Care less isn’t right either, it is more like, it just never enters your consciousness. Those things are part of an existence that you are no longer part of.

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  • Dno
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 7:17am

    See? Told you I was sick!

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 6:52am

    I’ve always had the great idea to swallow some recently minted coins and lay down in front of a glacier. Then in a million years the technologically advanced beings will find me under the ice and zap me back to life. Either that or the mutant Universal Geographic Society will display me like an artifact of a cave dwelling food and ammunition hoarder culture.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 6:51am

    .
    OK family remember if put that iGrave thing in the ground with me. iHaunt……..

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  • ustabhip
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:07am

    spam for your investment of only $97

    Report Post » ustabhip  
  • trappedinwv
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 3:25am

    As long as my puck has internet access and app store, I am cool with it.

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    • trappedinwv
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 4:31am

      Knowing my family they would downgrade me to dialup once the new customer deal expired. Then I haunt their asses.

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  • pamela kay
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:44am

    This is to eerie for me. When I go, so be it. I have never liked being the center of attention in life and certainly would not want to be in death.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 6:29am

      I want to be buried face down so the Ron paul haters can kiss my a@@.

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  • Witness1974
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:08am

    “Oh well, just my luck,
    Sharing my urn with a hockey puck.”

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  • Luke21
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 1:48am

    Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another—He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And as IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS THE JUDGMENT, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (Hebrews 9:23-28)

    For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is NOT CONDEMNED; BUT he who DOES NOT BELIEVE IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:16-18)

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  • Californiasodbuster
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 1:38am

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, you came into this world with nothing, and you leave with nothing, but an electronic device to find your empty shell.

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    • Californiasodbuster
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 1:59am

      I know my family and friends are awaiting me, i just hope my furry friends will be there.

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  • TXPilot
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 1:37am

    No, this isn’t creepy at all……

    Report Post » TXPilot  

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