The latest trend in gravestones is to change “here lies” to “here links.”

Barcodes much like the ones being slapped on advertisements and billboards are being affixed to headstones to provide mourners ways to connect with the dead online. Forget-me-nots and pansies may wilt, but websites live forever. When we think about how technology is changing us, we generally think of all the new things in our day-to-day lives (unless you happen to have read too much from Ray Kurzwiel). Now, it seems, technology may soon changing our ideas about death and grieving, too. Most of us have seen QR codes. You know, those funny arrangements of pixilated black boxes within a square….

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