'Requests for mobile phones to be are added to the coffin are common, and often come with a comment about 'at least they can get in touch if they aren't dead'. I hear this fear a lot in my work. The phone is a bit like the Victorians putting a bell in family mausoleums, just in case. I have had families who make sure it is fully charged so it will last as long as possible and regularly text the phone after burial.'

(Su Chard, independent celebrant, 2015)