mobile tele-fone coffin (humans, life)

[stanley-88888888]

should humans be buried with cellular tele-fones so that future archeologists could research pictures, music, videos, documents, ... of the entombed.

[ukrkoz]

And in air-conditioned coffins out of titanium.
Not kidding. Air conditioned coffin, when shut, releases special agent that prevents body deterioration. Ti will not rust through eons to come, to preserve that phone.

[Diana Holbrook]

Well, they should put a charger in there too.... The batteries ain't going to last.

[ukrkoz]

No worries, Musk will have one developed. For personal use, of course.

[msgsing]

Well that’s certainly an unpleasant scenario. Grave robbing for the preservation of history. No thanks.

[ukrkoz]

Grave robbing is as ancient as burying people.

[Yelling_at_Birds]

Good question. Will these hypothetical future archeologists have computers or software which is capable of reading the data on those phones?

File format standards may change a lot in several decades (or centuries). Who knows? If one plans to keep their data as a historical record, that data had better be:

An established standard with forward compatibility considerations
Free and open by design
Encryption keys provided (what a waste this would be if the deceased never wrote down or shared their passphrases)

EDIT: Some more thoughts on this:
NAND flash storage is life limited when not powered on for long periods of time. The technology is not yet old enough to have been put to the test, but it is possible that the NAND gates on those flash chips will lose their electrons after enough years.

I have put some thought into this before, as I am in a situation where if I died or disappeared suddenly, my family would never see anything that I have stored. How does one share encryption keys in such a way, that it is only usable in the event of one's death?

[ukrkoz]

One builds a pyramid. They will last for long time. With clear picture instructions how to.....