Sounds kind of goofy but I like the idea. The code could give lots of genealogical info, and I'm into that.

What would be funny is when St Peter waves you on through the Pearly Gates, a loud voice says, "Sorry, but you have activated WalMart's security system....
Please step back and the greeter will assist you."

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I agree, Iggy, that is pretty cool... but I hope they have a good backup system for this.

one thing about imbedding text into stones, it isn't vulnerable to changes in technology or computers going down, etc.

and what about those people that don't have the technology to read the bar codes?

I think it is a great idea... as a supplement to the old fashioned way of imbedding something into stone. but then, even though I've worked with computers all my working (for money ) career, I still love books and go regularly to the library. maybe it is because I've worked with computers all my career, that I like having the stone age backup..

btw, have you ever walked thru an old graveyard and read the stones.. it is very interesting (and a bit eerie). A couple of generations ago, it was a custom to set up a graveyard near a church, and members would be buried in their church's graveyard. When I took a trip to Boston, and also on some trips out in Virginia, I went thru some graveyards next to some very old churches. The stones were from the 1800s. It was like reaching out your hand and holding hands with the past for a bit to read some of the headstones on the graves. There were women who died in childbirth, and there were quite a few graves for children. graves from several wars. the epitaphs were so personal, very touching, some of them.

This is a hobby for some:

https://hubpages.com/hub/The-Hobby-of-Graving

https://www.beyondthepalace.com/graveyard2/index.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphophilia

"Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have." -Benjamin Franklin

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Yes, I'm fascinated by old cemeteries. I visited Wild Bill Hickock's grave in Deadwood, SD, where he's buried between his wife and his girlfriend, Calamity Jane.

I found a family plot in Arkansas where about a dozen members of the Clower family died in a 6 months period in 1918. I think you can figure out what killed them.

I've used dowsing rods to point to an ancestor's grave in a large cemetery. The only psychic I ever employed told me where my great-great-grandfather, Abel Johnson, is buried. That was 30 years ago and he charged $20 for 30 minutes. Recently, while googling the psychic's name and the name of my ancestor, I found my ancestor's obit in the NYT archives. My ancestor's name was misspelled and I would have never found it by googling his name but I specified the name of the railroad that he was killed on during a train wreck and the name of his hometown, Thomasville, Ga.

Abel Johnson's daughter was my great-grandmother. Her sister was the black sheep of the family. She was suspected of murdering a couple of her husbands. She hired professional mourners to attend the funeral of one of the husbands.

I wrote a 20 page paper on grave epitaphs for an English paper in college. I found it facinating!

I think this idea is really cool. You could use it to tell your relatives what you really think about them! My mom use to tell me that if I wasn't careful she would come back from the grave to haunt me. With this she could actually do it!

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