Now, text from beyond the grave courtesy RosettaStone

Thanks to the latest technology, headstones can now convey much more information than just names and dates - a photo and note written by the deceased, delivered right to your phone.

The product is called RosettaStone and comes from a company called Objecs, reports Discovery News.

RosettaStone looks like a granite iPod with a few symbols visible on the outside and a microchip embedded on the inside.

That device is then secured into the headstone so that visitors can see those symbols. Each symbol represents an area of the deceased person's life.