I'll Just Take the Beatific Vision Door, Monte

From News of the Weird (no link available, sorry):

TalkToAliens.com began taking orders in March, recording people's messages at $3.99 per minute and beaming them into space, aimed toward the Milky Way by a huge parabolic dish antenna in Connecticut on a relatively accessible FM frequency. And in December, German inventor Juergen Broether introduced his "telephonic angel" system (at about US$2,000), which is a battery-operated, underground loudspeaker that, buried at a gravesite, allows someone to speak into a microphone and have the messages amplified through the dirt to the departed for up to a year on a single battery charge. [Space Daily, 3-8-05] [Agence France-Presse, 2-5-05]

Voegelin liked to point out that our denial of the Christian summa bonum resulted in all sorts of perverse teachings, from Communism's earthly paradise to efforts to find better worlds in outer space. In a related twisting, the denial of a proper view of the after-life results in perverse dispositions toward the dead.