Digital tombstone

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A digital tombstone is the modern counterpart to "normal" analog tombstones or historical talking stones .

This is a flat screen that either stands as a single object on a grave site or is inserted into a tombstone / grave slab or a comparable object. The first digital tombstone was presented to the public in May 2007 in the small Dutch town of Rhenen by its inventor Hendrik Rozema with the name “Digizerk” - a combination of the words “digital” and “Grafzerk” (Dutch for tombstone). You can tell stories from the life of the deceased through film recordings, pictures or texts.

In this first design / version of these tombstones with flat screens, the power supply is ensured by a battery , possibly in connection with a solar cell . The screen can be operated using a remote control . There is (yet) no sound reproduction in order not to disturb the quiet of the cemetery. This variant is so far hardly widespread in German-speaking countries, as the cemetery regulations often do not (yet) allow such gravestones.

Another variant of this form of burial culture are gravestones or graves that are provided with a QR code and contain information about the whole life or parts of it, such as films or photos of the golden wedding, the last round birthday of the deceased person or similar via camera phone or mediate PDA .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital obituaries for the deceased: Gravestone TV and funeral channel. June 20, 2007. In: Rheinische Post - Panorama. From RP-online.de, accessed on February 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ Britta Hesener: Digital tombstones: flat screens in the cemetery. March 20, 2008. In: Stern - Digital. On Stern.de , accessed on February 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ Regina Castelberg: Gravestones with flat screens are trendy. October 14, 2008. In: Basler Zeitung - Society. At BaZonline.ch, accessed on February 3, 2019.
  4. ↑ Erik Wenk: Gravestones with QR code: the cult of the dead becomes contemporary. May 3, 2012. In: Daily Newspaper - Culture. On Taz.de , accessed on February 3, 2019.
  5. ↑ QR codes on tombstones: immortality on the web. April 23, 2012. In: Bild-Zeitung - Digital. On Bild.de , accessed on February 3, 2019.
  6. ↑ Video tonight (May 8, 2012)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on June 27, 2012. (offline)