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A Way to Carry Departed Loved Ones in a Pocket

The recent series of celebrity deaths has brought a new way to grieve and remember someone who has died with your iPhone to light.

The Pocket Cemetery is an application that has been available for iPhone for some time. With this application people can create virtual memorials on their iPhone to remember their friends, family, pets and anyone else who has died. According to their website the Pocket Cemetery also allows users to place virtual flowers on graves and send personal prayers and messages to dead loved ones.

The sentiments seem to be mixed regarding the Pocket Cemetery app for the iPhone with many of the technology people weighing in on the side that it is another way to exploit those who are grieving.

While it might seem unusual from a technology perspective, Pocket Cemetery is not that unusual as a way to cope with death. This application just uses new technology to manage an age-old problem, grieving the loss of a loved one.

Virtual Graveyard for the iPhone

Pocket Cemetery on iPhone Video

The Pocket Cemetery smart phone application allows you to memorialize departed loved ones on your IPhone and IPod Touch with photos, virtual tombstones and favorite memories.

You can create memorials for dead loved ones or anyone you want to memorialize including relatives, friends, pets and celebrities. Now you can visit the graves of departed loved ones any time. You can also send your departed loved ones flowers and prayers and share their memorials with others. Its like having your own little heaven in the palm of your hand.
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Inspiration Behind the Pocket Cemetery

I was thinking of my grandparents and other deceased relatives buried in different cemeteries around the country. I also thought of pets I've lost over the years. I thought how I'd like to visit their graves on a regular basis, but it's simply impossible.

That's when the idea hit me. If I could carry the memories of departed loved ones on my iPhone, I could pay my respects whenever I feel like it.

Even though they're buried in different places and some have even been cremated, I wanted to find a way to bring them all together.

Wayne Perry
President of GSC Products

Source: New iPhone App Memorializes Dead Loved Ones In The Palm Of Your Hand. PRWeb.

Pocket Cemetery Applicaton

The Pocket Cemetery comes with the following features:
  1. Customize Virtual Tombstones
    Easily post photos, favorite memories, biographies and customize the look and feel of virtual grave stones
  2. Send Virtual Flowers
    Place virtual flowers on the iPhone graves of loved ones for holidays and birthdays.
  3. Send Prayers & Messages
    Send prayers and messages to departed loved ones.
  4. Email Memorials To Friends
    Easily email your memorials friends and family members.
  5. Unlimited Lifetime Updates
    Receive FREE lifetime updates as the Pocket Cemetery expands to include online memorials, real flower deliveries, video and music.

Pocket Cemetery Website

Pocket Cemetery is a new smart phone application allows you to memorialize departed loved ones on your iPhone and iPod Touch with photos, virtual tombstones and favorite memories.

The Pocket Cemetery website also offers free blog space to users so they can share memories of their departed loved ones with the world.

A New Way to Grieve

My Thoughts on the Pocket Cemetery

While this noted by the company to be an unusual application, I am not sure I would agree as a Thanatologist (Death Educator) with the current buzz from the technology and iPhone reviewers that this application is just another way to prey on the grieving.

If you consider the price tag with their introductory sale of $1.99 or their regular price of $2.99 this app is actually less than the price of a cup of coffee or many sympathy cards. With the features that it provides--creating personalized headstones, sending messages to departed loved ones and finding a way to bring departed loved ones together in a Virtual Cemetery--the Pocket Cemetery might actually bring a lot of comfort to someone coping with a death.

This iPhone app is an interesting way of applying technology to help someone cope with the loss of a loved one or cope with a celebrity death.

More Thoughts on the Pocket Cemetery

Pocket Cemetery - Using New Techology to Cope with Death
The recent series of celebrity deaths lead to GSC Products making a pre-release version of a new iPhone application, one that it hoped will help people cope with the death of a loved one, or of a celebrity by memorializing them with an iPhone application from the Grief, Loss & Bereavement Edublog.
Pocket Cemetery Inspired by Recent Celebrity Deaths
The pre-release of the new iPhone app, Pocket Cemetery has been inspired by the recent series of celebrity deaths, most notably Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon and Billy Mays from the Grief, Loss & Transitions - Journey of Hearts Blog.

Create a Virtual Gravesite

Pocket Cemetery on iTunes

Pocket Cemetery on iTunes
Available to download for Iphone and Ipod Touch

Michael Jackson Memorial IPhone Pocket Cemetery

We've created a virtual gravesite for Michael Jackson on the new Pocket Cemetery IPhone application. Even though Michael's life was filled with controversy, he will always be the King of Pop. He's a true icon of entertainment and he will be missed by millions.

The Pocket Cemetery IPhone app is scheduled for release sometime in July, but we felt we had to create a memorial for Michael on this sad day of his unexpected passing. Rest In Peace Michael.
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GSC Products Responses to the Death of Michael Jackson

    I've gotten over 1,000 requests for Pocket Cemetery since I added the Michael Jackson memorial to my YouTube channel last week. Many of his fans want to create their own memorials since they cannot be at his funeral on Tuesday.

    Wayne Perry
    President of GSC Products
Wayne Perry says he's received numerous requests for pre-release versions of Pocket Cemetery from Michael Jackson fans who want to create their own memorials to remember the King of Pop, after he uploaded his own Michael Jackson memorial to YouTube.

GSC Products is offering to email copies of their Michael Jackson memorial to any fans who request it at info@PocketCemetery.com.

Source: New iPhone App Memorializes Dead Loved Ones In The Palm Of Your Hand. PRWeb.

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iPod Touch in the Amazon Spotlight

Apple iPod touch 32 GB (2nd Generation) [Previous Model]

Apple iPod touch 32 GB (2nd Generation) [Previous Model]

Amazon Price: $393.40 (as of 02/15/2012)Buy Now

This iPod Touch has a 32 GB capacity which holds 7,000 songs, 10,000 photos, or 40 hours of video

It includes a 3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display with 480-by-320-pixel resolution.

Sending Real Flowers Virtually

Meanwhile, GSC is planning updates for the app, including the ability to order real flowers to be delivered to graves in the real world. Wayne Perry remarked:

    We're all so busy these days and it's easy to forget to pay your respects to dead loved ones even when you think of them often.

    I feel so bad that it's been ten years since I laid flowers on my grandmother's grave, but with this application I can send her flowers and pay my respects whenever the feeling hits me. It makes me feel closer to my departed loved ones.
Sources: Michael Jackson memorial boosting iPhone Pocket Cemetery app. Mobile Entertainment.

New iPhone App Memorializes Dead Loved Ones In The Palm Of Your Hand. PRWeb.

Articles on the Pocket Cemetery

Pocket Cemetery: Virtual Graveyard for the iPhone
Pocket Cemetery is an iPhone application that lets you create virtual tombstones for your departed loved ones on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It lets you post photos, favorite memories, biographies, send prayers and place virtual flowers on your tombstone, as well as email your memorials to friends and family.
Video: Pocket Cemetery iPhone App preys on grief, sends prayers to Flash memory
Death is a certainty and as inescapable as the people who will prey on your grief. The new Pocket Cemetery App on iTunes lets you create virtual tombstones for "dead relatives, friends, pets, or celebrities" that you can decorate with bitmapped flower images. You can even use the on-screen QWERTY to tap out and "send" a little prayer.
Apple Approves Pocket Cemetery For iPhone To Pay A Tribute To Michael Jackson – SoftSailor
This is probably the weirdest iPhone application ever: Pocket Cemetery. I know that in the end nothing matters as we are all going to die, but this doesn't mean I like seeing tombstones all over my cellphone.
Michael Jackson memorial boosting iPhone Pocket Cemetery app | Mobile Content | News by Mobile Entertainment
iPhone developer GSC Products is seeing a resurgence in interest in its Pocket Cemetery app - thanks to Michael Jackson. The app has been available on the iPhone App Store for some time, and lets people create virtual memorials for their dead friends, family, pets and kings of pop.
New iPhone App Memorializes Dead Loved Ones In The Palm Of Your Hand
PR: Pocket Cemetery is the first iPhone application that allows users to create virtual memorials for departed loved ones using customizable tombstones with pictures, bios and favorite memories. Users can easily create personalized plots for relatives, friends, pets, celebrities or anyone they want to memorialize.

Future Plans for the Pocket Cemetery

According to the PRWeb press release:

    Pocket Cemetery is available for $2.99 with unlimited free lifetime updates as the database grows to include other interactive applications such as real flower deliveries to grave sites, virtual candles, charitable contributions and audio sermons delivered in the names of departed loved ones.
Image Source: Microsoft Clipart.

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IPhone Memorial Billy Mays, Farrah Fawcett, Nana & Cookie

This is another example of the new Pocket Cemetery IPhone application, and how it can be used to memorialize departed loved ones, pets and even celebrities. Over the past few days we've lost some very influential celebrities including Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and now Billy Mays who died today.

This video memorializes Farrah and Billy along with my grandmother who died many years ago and my wonderful dog Cookie.
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iPod Touch in the Amazon Spotlight

Apple iPod touch 16 GB (1st Generation) OLD MODEL

Apple iPod touch 16 GB (1st Generation) OLD MODEL

Amazon Price: $320.00 (as of 02/15/2012)Buy Now

This iPod Touch has 16 GB of storage which holds approximately 3,500 songs. It includes a 3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display.

New applications for the iPod Touch include email, maps, and widgets for weather, notes, and stocks.

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