Try the 'iGrave': Technology Reaches Out from Beyond

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: