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Digital technology is making inroads everywhere. But at the cemetery? Rather than paying for a skilled artisan to chisel the deceased’s name and other information on a tombstone, Austrian funeral-services company Aspetosis offers mourning families the option of having a stonemason sandblast a quick response (QR) code on the gravestone using a computer-generated template. A visitor to the grave site can scan the code with a smartphone to read about the person’s life.
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