{"id":171897,"date":"2023-03-07T00:36:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T00:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=171897"},"modified":"2023-03-07T00:36:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T00:36:15","slug":"man-creates-qr-code-for-dads-grave-so-people-can-scan-and-learn-about-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/man-creates-qr-code-for-dads-grave-so-people-can-scan-and-learn-about-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Man creates QR code for dad’s grave so people can scan and learn about his life"},"content":{"rendered":"

A grieving son has gone the extra mile for his father's funeral by creating a QR code for the gravestone which can be scanned to learn more about his life. <\/p>\n

Michael Bourque, 55, is an inventor and engineer from Massachusetts, US. <\/p>\n

He wanted to find a way to better memorialise his late father John Harold Bourque, who passed away in April 2017 at the age of 87. <\/p>\n

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He then had a sudden light-bulb moment to make a scannable QR code.<\/p>\n

Michael used a 3D printer to make the code out of weatherproof plastic that glows in the dark before gluing it to his father's gravestone.<\/p>\n

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When people walk past it, they can scan the code using their smartphone and are taken to a website which features John's biography, family photos and even a timeline of his life.<\/p>\n

He told MailOnline: "When someone dies, they put a marker on the ground before you buy the stone. I thought, "Jeez, no one's gonna see this. There's so much to know about my dad.<\/p>\n

"And in an instant, I came up with this idea."<\/p>\n

John, the youngest of five children, was born during the Great Depression and enlisted in the US Army in 1951 during the Korean War.<\/p>\n

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