Gravestones are totally 20th century. Natural burial with GPS positioning should be the norm. Better to have a Wikitree profile that celebrates the person’s life, not the spot of a moldering corpse.
Cemetary Selfies. ‘Wait wait, don’t fill it in yet!’ Titled: Repose with a rose. Horn hands and tongues out… probably not appropriate. But, then, I didn’t know Bob very well.
Our friends and family are spread up and down the east coast. Our eulogies are mostly pre-written, and an email list has been set up. When one of us passes the other will email the eulogy soon after the cremation.
I’m a cemetery guide and one of my favorite epitaphs is on the marker of a pre-planner who is very much alive. The flat bronze marker bears her name, birth year , the image of a sunflower and the following; “See you later!”
The most important ‘pixels’ are those that reside in the minds and thought of those left to remember. That’s where the essence lies and QR codes aren’t up to that.
And the people depicted here are mainly old folx, when the groups that are really tuned out from the real world are the ones who grew up after smartphones became ubiquitous. Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness details why this phenomenon (plus overprotective parenting) has led to an alarming rise in anxiety, depression, overeating, cutting, paranoia, and suicide among young folx, specifically millennials and Gen Z.
Meh, if my friends or acquaintances didn’t care enough to come see me in life I’m not giving them a freebie guilt erase at my grave side. No funeral, VA will bury me and see you on the other side.
Ratkin Premium Member about 2 months ago
antisocial media
sirbadger about 2 months ago
At least you aren’t giving a eulogy after someone loaded the wrong speech in the teleprompter.
Mediatech about 2 months ago
It really is the least you could do.
Ubintold about 2 months ago
Yeah, a phone-in.
Hugh B. Hayve about 2 months ago
They could just put a QR code on the stone and have a nice day, see ya later.
bob666 about 2 months ago
Gravestones are totally 20th century. Natural burial with GPS positioning should be the norm. Better to have a Wikitree profile that celebrates the person’s life, not the spot of a moldering corpse.
PraiseofFolly about 2 months ago
It gives ‘uploaded to the cloud’ new meaning.
Paul D Premium Member about 2 months ago
If you like something about me tell me NOW, not later, when I can’t hear you.
davidob about 2 months ago
What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.
Doug K about 2 months ago
Sad.
For a Just and Peaceful World about 2 months ago
Google: QR code for headstones
goboboyd about 2 months ago
Cemetary Selfies. ‘Wait wait, don’t fill it in yet!’ Titled: Repose with a rose. Horn hands and tongues out… probably not appropriate. But, then, I didn’t know Bob very well.
Aficionado about 2 months ago
Our friends and family are spread up and down the east coast. Our eulogies are mostly pre-written, and an email list has been set up. When one of us passes the other will email the eulogy soon after the cremation.
wirepunchr about 2 months ago
AMF!
stringer831 about 2 months ago
I’m a cemetery guide and one of my favorite epitaphs is on the marker of a pre-planner who is very much alive. The flat bronze marker bears her name, birth year , the image of a sunflower and the following; “See you later!”
sandpiper about 2 months ago
The most important ‘pixels’ are those that reside in the minds and thought of those left to remember. That’s where the essence lies and QR codes aren’t up to that.
Linguist about 2 months ago
#I’m outta here!
Calvins Brother about 2 months ago
We can Google Meet or Zoom our funerals from our couch.
David Frechette Premium Member about 2 months ago
And they’re not even millennials!
Snoots about 2 months ago
Most valid comic of the year.
DaBump Premium Member about 2 months ago
Ah, if only they held a war, and nobody showed up because it was all done virtually online… wait, Star Trek: TOS did something like that decades ago.
kathleenhicks62 about 2 months ago
o.k.
mindjob about 2 months ago
Cremation will become mandatory as they run out of space to bury the dead. But I guess that’s better than Soylent Green
Jml58 about 2 months ago
They could get Diamond Lil to hold the eulogi.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 2 months ago
And the people depicted here are mainly old folx, when the groups that are really tuned out from the real world are the ones who grew up after smartphones became ubiquitous. Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness details why this phenomenon (plus overprotective parenting) has led to an alarming rise in anxiety, depression, overeating, cutting, paranoia, and suicide among young folx, specifically millennials and Gen Z.
Redd Panda about 2 months ago
Rather than tears at my graveside, I want some music.
I will force my friends to endure my love of music, one last time. A playlist? Strange you should ask.
In no particular order of favor…Laura Nyro, “When I die”
Queen “Who dares to love forever?”
Jackson Browne “The Loud Out and Stay”
Leon Russell “A Song for You” and we’re done.Rista about 2 months ago
Meh, if my friends or acquaintances didn’t care enough to come see me in life I’m not giving them a freebie guilt erase at my grave side. No funeral, VA will bury me and see you on the other side.
willie_mctell about 2 months ago
I want inexpensive sanitary disposal. No funeral, no memorial anything.
JoeMartinFan Premium Member about 2 months ago
#R.I.P.BOB – coincidentally, the great comedian Bob Newhart passed away today.
AndrewSharpe about 2 months ago
Appropriate since Bob Newhart died today.
keenanthelibrarian about 2 months ago
Are they writing or reading messages from the grave? Apparently he was something of an influencer.
eddi-TBH about 2 months ago
Our Tweets and other embarrassments will outlive us. The question is really, do we care?
KingDavidLane about 2 months ago
Neither of those are bad. Its not the realizing it that’s bad it’s that you didn’t do it from home.
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 2 months ago
I am so grateful that my dad’s funeral wasn’t like that.
6turtle9 about 2 months ago
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