Forever Story?

OldFrill

This isn't particularly new and it has it's place for those that want to share the deceased's history. I assume you could create the QR code yourself at no cost. I've seen similar on memorial benches where it can contribute greatly to local history.

Yes you could create the QR code yourself, but of course you also need to create a website to host the information the QR code links to, in perpetuity.

It might be possible to do this in a municipal cemetery. However, in a churchyard you would have to have permission and I very much doubt that it would be granted.

On memorial benches and similar it could be interesting.

For simplicity a QR can be linked to a website or Facebook or other social media account. No great shakes setting the system up. My advice was purely to make people aware there was a need to pay for the service.

No.

Another grifting idea by some who are preying on families grief.

I think it’s an inevitable development given the way digital everything rules our lives. I still struggle to manage our new fancy pants tv it’s so overly complicated, just because it can be. I wouldn’t want a QR or to view one. But I bet they’ll be commonplace soon, or at least after we’re all gone.

Louella12

There's a grave in USA. Married couple. They were competitive dancers.

The QR code is footage of them dancing the waltz when they were young.

It's actually rather lovely

That’s very touching.

None of this is obligatory, so I don’t see the problem. Our local churchyard used to be a complete overgrown, neglected mess, but is now looked after and kept beautifully by a group of volunteers. Some very old Commonwealth war graves have come to light, and these now have QR codes linking to a website with details of the stories behind them. I don’t see anything ghoulish about it. I think it’s lovely that these people are no longer completely forgotten.

What use would a QR code be in one hundred years? People will not even be using QR scanners in the future.

Rather unnecessary I would have though and also a tad tacky

I am a bit wistful about graveyards and graves. For me they are almost liminal places where you go to visit the ancestors. Where I live we have a lovely old cemetery where history blends with nature and the present day. We also have another new cemetery attached to the parish church where the graves honestly look like tributes to Hollywood movie stars. So, it's a 'no' from me to a QR code on a headstone.

I love looking round old graveyards, especially at the oldest graves, looking at the names and imagining their lives but is a place to imagine and reflect not to actually see the deceased, that somehow makes something solemn and peaceful a bit tawdry in my opinion. Though am sure it will soon become a trend. And am with an earlier poster who mentioned about photos of the deceased on more recent graves, I also find this a bit disconcerting, I suppose because it is making death more personal and real.
In any case is just my opinion.