OLD ANSWERING MACHINES INSPIRE CYBER-CEMETERY

OLD ANSWERING MACHINES INSPIRE CYBER-CEMETERY

CHICAGO (Wireless Flash) -- Just because Aunt Mabel has kicked the bucket doesn't mean her voice has to kick the bucket too. A Chicago man has created the world's first "cyber sound cemetery" to archive the voice recordings of dead or soon-to-be- dead folks for future generations. Web site designer Claude Rallins says he created sonicsanctuary.com after he realized many families save old photographs of deceased loved one, but few people save old recordings. Customers pay $25 a year for a special web page where they can store old audio recordings of family members. Rallins says people are submitting everything from playbacks of old answering machine tapes to voice mail recordings from the recently deceased.