Say Deceased...!

Creepy? Aberrant? Definitely odd. Well, we all know Japanese live under their own bizarro galaxy now these kids are taking technology far down the macabre.

Japan's obsession with camera-equipped mobile phones has taken a bizarre twist, with mourners at funerals now using the devices to capture a final picture of the deceased.

Mourners apparently gather around the corpse and take turns photographing it using their phone camera as the body was being prepared for cremation. I pray to all forms of deities in heaven that this is simply part of the mobile phone craze nowadays and doesn't turn into an age-old tradition.

While many would agree with me that this is plain morbid, others prefer to call it "a form of a memento in the modern age."

But as JaxBlog writes:

"...having a picture of grandma in her coffin lying around the house. What the hell would you do with it? Take it out every now and then to reminisce about the "great time" you had at the funeral?"

Always knew a phone with camera is a useless devise. Now people are coming up with idiotic ways to use it. Maybe so they can justify why they fell for this stupid gadget in the first place?

And I'm creeped out to realize just now that the new wave could be filming the dead thru your video phones. And then there'll be file sharing on YouTube or somethin'. Please spare us of your dead.

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