Ireland's obsession with the mobile phone has sunk to new depths with a growing number of people now taking them with them to the
grave.
The mobile phone has become a must-have accessory for young people with 94 percent of people owning one.
Ireland has had a tradition of people being buried with their most treasured possessions and there is a growing trend for mobile phones be sent to the hereafter.
"People will sometimes leave mementos in coffins with the deceased and nowadays it is happening that people are taking their mobile phones with them," said Peter Flanagan of Kirwan's funeral homes.
"There is a fear that some people have that they will be buried alive. They have contact with the outside world if they have a mobile phone with them."
Families burying phones with their loved ones are encouraged to either turn them off or switch them to silent or vibration alert.
"Obviously you don't want a phone ringing inside a coffin during a funeral," Mr Flanagan said.