Keeping an eye on your dead relatives and friends

It is becoming increasing common to keep a watchful eye on your children, property, elderly parents, and a less than trustworthy spouse by using a web cam and the Internet.

Pollica, Italy, a city of less than 3,000 living inhabitants, will now offer for sale tombs outfitted with video and audio equipment connected to the Internet.  The city will sell 150 of this high-tech tombs to permit physically distant friends and relatives to commune with the deceased. 

The mayor of Pollica is reported as saying that “A Web cam will be operational ’round the clock and there’ll also be a new sound system to give them a feel of the meditative atmosphere.”

See Italian town to have graveyard Web cam, UPI.com, April 23, 2009.