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Technology Brings Digital Memories To Grave Sites
The process of burying the dead hasn't changed much over the centuries, but now their gravestones can provide a digital link to their life stories.
A Seattle-based company is creating burial markers that include a scannable, stamp-like image called a "quick read" — or QR code.
The codes can be placed on tombstones so visitors can learn more about the dearly departed, leave messages for their loved ones, and record stories for others who may visit. And all you need is a smartphone and a free app to make it work.
Death and the human desire for remembrance are the constants that have kept Quiring Monuments — run by Dave Quiring — going for three generations. Quiring is part grief counselor, part artisan, part editor.
"My job is to help people tell a story in stone, generally," he says.
Quiring inherited his role 43 years ago, when his father died. Since then, he's added bronze, glass, even stainless steel and color photographs to the materials the company uses to make modern headstones. And now he's going digital: by offering black-and-white QR codes for gravestones.
You may have seen QR codes in magazine ads. They're a little larger than a postage stamp and look a bit like a combination of a bar code and a Rorschach blot. You scan them with a free smartphone app and they bring up a website. Quiring pulls one from his shirt pocket.
A few seconds later, my smartphone begins beeping, and soon it has pulled up a sepia picture of a man in a double-breasted suit looking out at us.
"There's my dad," Quiring says. "Look at him — quite the dapper guy back in 1930."
Quiring beams at the sight of this picture and the slideshow that follows. There's the obituary that was in the newspaper after his dad died and a scan of part of a Robert Frost poem that his wife found in his wallet. It became David Quiring Sr.'s epitaph.
More Than Just Monuments
We head to the veterans cemetery less than a mile up the road from the shop to visit the Quiring family's plot.
From the car, Quiring — who himself served during Vietnam — looks past some blooming cherry trees. Rows and rows of uniform white monuments cover the hillside. His shop has a federal contract to make them. He'd love to see his QR code stickers added to each one.
"And then you could make a tour through there and it would be more than just a bunch of white monuments," he says. "It would be distinct lives of people who really deserve to have their story told.
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Quiring is part grief counselor, part artisan, part editor. "My job is to help people tell a story in stone, generally," he says. The QR code affixed to David Quiring Sr.'s tombstone. Quiring inherited his role 43 years ago, when his father died.
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