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By MIKE BRODY
MyFox National
People are so attached to their cell phones these days that they are being buried with them.

There are no actual figures that show how many people are taking their phones and other gadgets with them to the grave, but many morticians are reporting the trend is on the upswing.

“It really started happening within the last five or six years,” Frank Perman, owner and funeral director of Frank R. Perman Funeral Home, Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pa., told msnbc.com. “But I expect it to grow exponentially, especially with the price of technology getting so low. It’s not that big of a deal to bury somebody’s cell phone.”

For many people, their phone is a very personal item that represents their individuality. This could explain the requests to have it with them for all eternity.

The practice of surrounding yourself in your final resting place with things that have special meaning dates back thousands of years to the ancient Egyptians, who believed the items would be useful to them in the afterlife.