Tombstone QR Codes: Bringing the memorial to the mobile device
Technology has been integrated into paying tribute to lost loved ones for some time now at funerals and on memorial websites, but Israeli medical technology executive Yoav Medan has brought technology to the final place of rest for his mother by adding a QR Code to her gravestone.
“I was most concerned about 20 or 40 years from now, how will she be remembered … [I wanted to put] what’s in our memory into a place that doesn’t forget,” he said.
Scanning the QR Code with a mobile device takes visitors to a website where he plans to grow with stories and images of his mother’s life. It was engraved by laser and filled with black paste intended to continue to work over time fighting erosion. “The guy who built the tombstone, he wants to make a business out of it,” he said.
To the right, you can scan the QR code that appears on Medan’s mother’s grave.
Should the web page by some means is able to to settle in place or maybe receive archived (a Afterlife coordinator settled by way of confidence deposit? ) this is a wonderful blessing to help foreseeable future genealogists. Or maybe definitely not — identical facts may very well be readily available in another place. Although at the moment examining factors down gravestones is a wonderful cause of genealogical facts, as well as a web page could possibly take so much more than simply some sort of jewel…
If the website somehow manages to stay up or get archived (an Afterlife host paid by a trust fund?) this could be an incredible boon to future genealogists. Or not – the same info might be available elsewhere. But right now reading things off gravestones is a great source of genealogical info, and a website could carry so much more than just a stone…
Wow, no way dude thats like major coolness.