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Mortuary Allows Text Message Condolences

by Tim Stevens on October 1, 2008 at 09:45 AM



While society is in general a lovely thing, sometimes social duties can be painful to say the least. Inviting your inbred cousins from the sticks to your wedding? A necessary evil. Lying and saying your newborn nephew with the big ears is cute as a button? Challenging. Calling to send condolences when a distant relative has passed on? Difficult for even the most stoic -- so why not let technology feign sincerity for you? That's what one Spanish mortuary is offering, a texting service to offer condolences.

When the obituaries are posted to the paper a special code is included in the listing. For about $2.50, well-wishers can send texts containing that code to the mortuary, which are then passed on to the grieving family members -- after each one is read by a staff member to ensure that nothing tasteless is passed on. With that criteria, we're not entirely sure how any of them would be shared, as the whole thing is tasteless, to say the least, but that's certainly not stopped others in the past from making equally shallow uses of technology before. [From: The Telegraph]

Tags: cell phones, CellPhones, death, mortuary, texting

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