英丧葬机构推二维码墓碑_BEC初级作文

英丧葬机构推二维码墓碑

QR codes have been used in advertisements for years, and a handful of American funeral homes began attaching them to gravestones in early 2011. This appears to be the first time they have been placed on gravestones in the United Kingdom.

Nimmo said the codes are for both visitors and the family. Anyone walking through a graveyard who spots a code can scan it. And the family can create online memorials to the dead.

"For the families, it's part of the grieving process," Nimmo said in a phone conversation from Poole, along the southern coast of England. "But it's more for strangers. Certainly in the U.K., people go to cemeteries and have a historical interest. People are more interested in not only his name, but what he looked like. For a country that doesn't talk about death, there's a morbid fascination in it."

Gill Tuttiett, 53, lost her husband Tim to heart failure in November, and was Nimmo's first customer.

"Tim was quite outward-going and game for anything," Tuttiett told the British media. "I think this is the way forward and Tim would have wanted that, and it's making a process that's hard possibly easier."

On the qr-memories.co.uk website, Gillian has written an obituary for Tim that is accessible via the code. Tim's photo stares back at the viewer, looking relaxed, with a half smile.

"Thriving on every opportunity that came his way, Tim lived life to the full, enjoying many different sports activities," the obituary reads. "A totally devoted family man, he will be greatly missed by his family and many friends. So sad that it had to end so soon."