death brought to digital life

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No longer need death be anything as final as ... well ... death.

In Austria, technicians are working to make digital remembrance a possibility, sewing digital markers into gravestones and bringing memories of those below to life.

All you need is a smartphone equipped with a scanner to read the so-called "quick response" (QR) codes, the square of squiggles already widely used in advertising campaigns to unlock a trove of information for the curious.

The first QR codes will start appearing on graves in Austria within weeks, said Joerg Bauer, project leader for Austrian bereavement company Aspetos, who has been working on the QR project for five years.

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