Russian father builds iPhone-shaped tombstone for his daughter
Updated | By The Workzone with Barney Simon
Rais Shameev has erected a five-foot iPhone-shaped tombstone
at the grave of his daughter in Ufa, Russia.
They say that, when your loved ones pass, you should try to remember them at their best. Whatever gave them the most happiness while they were alive should be what you focus on whenever you think of them. Even if what they enjoyed the most was spending all their waking hours scrolling through social media.
That’s perhaps what Rais Shameev had in mind when he built a
five-foot iPhone-shaped tombstone out of basalt for his deceased daughter Rita
Shameev. The tombstone looks just like the popular smartphone, right down to
the screensaver – a picture of Rita herself.
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Dead ringer: Woman buried in Russia is given 5ft iPhone tombstone https://t.co/ce6V8xo59M
— murat (@amvrathesch) September 26, 2018
A man who had been visiting the graves of his loved ones described the shock of seeing the unusually elaborated tombstone: “I thought I was having hallucinations. How could an American smartphone suddenly appear at our cemetery?”
A Russian father’s love. Designed an iPhone tombstone. Lovely picture on “screen.” Lass died 2016 of unknown cause. https://t.co/Zt2u8FO3Fw
— Maura Smith-Mitsky 🗽💄 🍹 (@GemLeola) September 26, 2018
Rais
did not comment on his reasons behind creating the tombstone. It is suspected
that it may have been built by “a Siberian company that offers ‘death accessories’".
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If you could choose the shape of your tombstone, what would it be?
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