Tell the future, about yourself.

Posted by Rob Walker on May 6, 2010
Posted Under: Obituaries,Products

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Here is RosettaStone, a product of Objecs LLC. I read about it in Obit Magazine. As I understand it, it’s a piece of granite inlaid with symbols of your choosing, and it contains digitally accessible information about you. It’s meant to be embedded in your tombstone. But you can buy it now, and start crafting the message you want to leave behind, about you, which will be available to people with the right cellphones, or whatever, for upwards of 3,000 years. You can “be discovered” by citizens of the future, as the company’s site says. It also says: “Be more than a name and date for future generations.”

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Obit Mag interviewed a man who bought one:

Hill has been updating and frequently rewriting the text he wants to accompany his RosettaStone entries frequently.

“If a truck hits me tomorrow, I’ve got some words that will last forever and that’s real,” he said. “It’s hard to write at first. You’re thinking, ‘Wow. These are my last words.’”

Wow, indeed. Also, “for a limited time,” you can get a “tablet case,” so you can carry this around with you, I suppose, until you die.

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Obit Mag says “fewer than 100” have been sold.

Further diversion may be found at MKTG Tumblr, and the Consumed Facebook page.

Reader Comments

Oh, no. No. Never. Let me move on to whatever magical life is next…

#1 
Written By Susan on May 6th, 2010 @ 9:27 pm

Actually, if you could just transmit your final mixtape from headstone to headphone, that would be awesome.

#2 
Written By cousin lymon on May 7th, 2010 @ 8:37 am