21st century cemeteries

[Duke87 1,070]

How would you like a QR code on your tombstone?

I'm not sure what to think of this. Part of my thinks it's awesome. Another part of me thinks it's tarnishing something solemn and sacred. But one can see the benefit... and I suppose if it's your grave, your family can mark it as they please...

One concern I do have though is the lack of fortitude of the medium involved. Websites are not rocks. Place a gravestone, and you can probably bank on that it will still be there and still be legible in 100 years, even if it gets completely forgotten about and no one maintains it. But for the website the QR code links to... what are the odds that link will still be good in 10 years, let alone 100? And what are the odds that QR codes themselves will still be in use in 10 or 100 years at all? Computer technology advances very fast and it is not a good medium for preserving something you want to last multiple lifetimes. Sometimes, the oldest methods are the best... the phrase "set in stone" doesn't come from nowhere.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Dont think they even use regular head stones any more for new burials.,most are imbedded plaques in the ground.

so the hoodlums dont push them over.

[Alejandro24 575]

Is something interesting this of the QR codes in the headstones, altough I don't see that this could be applied massively, not at least were I live.

When I die in the future I want to be buried with a celtic cross over my grave, the QR code is optional.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Si monumentum requiris, circumspice. An epitaph found in the middle of a howling desert on the plinth of a destroyed statue. (If you need a monument, look around you). To put it mildly: Sic transit gloria mundi. (Thus passes the glory of the world).

I have directed that I be cremated and my ashes mixed with those of my wife. After that, I don't care.

[LexusInfernus 908]

Its...interesting. But I think its kinda like those headstones that have a small screen and play this pre recorded message. But yeah, whatever floats peoples dead boat I guess.

I want my ashes to be shot into space if thats possible. Or otherwise be spread out over the ocean. No tombstones or cemeteries for me please

[Ocram's Razr 963]

If I was wealthy, I would want to be cremated and my urn put in a mausoleum in a skyscraper.

--Ocram

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Cremation is cheap. Cost $400 for my wife. If I had wanted an urn and an interment, it would have run up to five grand. Dead is dead. Who cares. She is currently in a box in my linen closet along with the interment license.

[Duke87 1,070]

I recall years ago that this came up in an odd conversation and I determined that I might like to be encased in a block of concrete and then placed in a park to function as a bench. Stupid logic here being that 1) it allows me to be useful for something after I'm dead, and 2) it keeps me out of contact with dirt (dirt is icky) but unlike cremation also leaves my body intact.

Of course, who's around to care once they're out, anyway? Seriously. Grind me up and make dog food out of me for all I care. Just don't tell me you intend to do that while I'm still alive.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Did you know that some 'strict' sects of Judaism insist on no embalming, burial immediately, and have holes drilled in the bottom of the casket to that the 'elements' can take the body? Waste of real estate.