Flat-screen memorials to the dead emerge

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A US company is planning to flog high-tech tombstones with embedded flat screen monitors.

Vidstone is planning to run video footage of the dead person on the tombstone so that visitors will be able to see the person when he or she was out and about.

The idea is the brain child of Joe Joachim, who says he wants to be the Walt Disney of the funeral business. Fair enough, Walt Disney is pretty dead too.

Each tomb stone will be solar powered and will play a video of the person's life at the touch of a button. Although there will not be speakers, the tomb-stone will have a jack to plug in headphones.

He told Associated Press that he plans to wow delegates at the annual funeral directors convention in Chicago in October with the idea. We would have thought a conference of funeral directors would not need much to wow them.
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Reminds me of this robin williams movie:

The Final Cut

Omar Naim's The Final Cut is startlingly different than a conventional science fiction film. It's a compelling fable that offers a vision of a world where memory implants record all moments of a person's life. Post mortem, these memories are removed and edited by a "Cutter" into a reel depicting the life of the departed for a commemorative ceremony, called a Rememory. Robin Williams' powerful portrayal of Alan Hackman, a troubled "cutter," propels this character driven story that forces us to question the power of our memories and the sanctity of our privacy
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