We buried my Dad in 1995 with his old beat up transistor radio, he loved sitting in the back yard listening to the games. Brother insisted on taking the batteries out so they would not leak. I advocated for putting in fresh batteries and turning it on so we could hear it as he was lowered down. I lost.
Nice. Too bad re: the radio. Didn’t see what the big deal would have been; so what was the reason not to put fresh batteries in his radio?