Today is the anniversary of the death of my dear friend Jenn. The fact that she’s gone is still so bizarre to me. Every time something funny happens, I want to pick up the phone and tell her about it. Death is so very disorienting, and it’s hard to know how to appropriately memorialize the people we love. It’s so easy for memorial efforts to turn maudlin or lugubrious, but I recently learned about a company working in the death memorial space that’s doing something fresh and sweet and not at all cringey.
This is Turning Hearts, a memorial company that makes weatherproof aluminum medallions that can be added to headstones and urns and other memorials. The medallion has a QR code, which brings you to a web page with any or all of the following: bio, videos, audio recordings, pictures, links to the person’s obituary, and other details. Visitors to the site can also leave comments (“tributes”) which must be approved by the account’s admin. Assuming that the loved one who makes the decisions about the account does a good job, these links could do such a magnificent job of honoring the person who has died.
You can learn more about Turning Hearts medallions on their website and on Instagram and Facebook. You can also purchase them on Amazon!
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March 12, 2024 at 6:42 am
Other things evolve with the times so it does make sense that there would be a tech adaptation of memorials. I could imagine that for some people it would be very comforting to be able to access that digital archive when visiting a grave or other space that commemorates their loved one.
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March 12, 2024 at 9:15 am
As with all technology, there’s ample opportunity for it to go sideways, but I think it’s sweet to be able to share memories of the person’s life.
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