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Marble is too soft. Granite is better. I've made arrangements for my most important personal data (full name, birth and death dates) to be engraved on a granite
by dn3500 5y ago
Marble is too soft. Granite is better. I've made arrangements for my most important personal data (full name, birth and death dates) to be engraved on a granite slab when I die. This slab will be physically arranged alongside others, one for each family member, showing the relationships among people. This will be set up in a special location set aside for that purpose, outdoors safe from fire and building collapse. I expect the data to still be readable hundreds of years from now.
- pstuart 5y agoUntil the property gets developed a couple decades later and they "move it".
- krasin 5y agoEgyptian pharaohs knew a solution to that problem.
- b3lvedere 5y agoIt seems the larger the size of your grave, the better it gets preserved. :) I wonder if Jezz Bezos will have build something that's even bigger than a pyramid or the Taj Mahal. Maybe he'll buy half the moon or something.
- myth_drannon 5y agoBring a bouldozer, load everything on a dump track and dump it in a nearby forest.
- valyagolev 5y agoare those things your most important personal data? if i cared this much i’d probably prefer to leave a sentence or two rather than my proper name…
- jaza 5y agoI can imagine that, in the near future, there will be headstones in cemeteries, with nothing on them except a QR code, which will require an app to scan, and a key to decrypt the data. I wonder what future civilisations - where smartphones and encryption algorithms have been long lost - will make of that? And we thought the Egyptians left us a tough one to crack!
- bjowen 5y agoThere are occasional headstones with recipes on them. I love to imagine those aliens trying to figure out Aunt Naomi’s Spritz Cookies.