But - I dunno. People don't often get buried these days, and those who do, often are dug up and burned once the lease on the grave site is up.
Yeah, but it's infinitely more replicate-able.
> than parent's idea of burying the information with the body.
Why not do both?
I think my original point may be, "Who gets buried these days"? There's >6 billion people, I would assume most people are cremated. Plots o' land are rented out, ya know. Fail to renew your lease, you get dug up.
Or our pets, many of whom are injected with passive RFID chips. Assuming the vaccination database is still live somewhere, you could someday look up the name, owner, vaccination and vet history of long-deceased cats and dogs.
Eyeballs? Do it in a couple different languages and your hip might be the next Rosetta stone.
There was a 70s movie, and I assume a novel, about a spy with amnesia who had a swiss account number engraved onto such a plate. But I cannot seem to google it atm.
Bourne takes from so many spy stories that i doubt it possible to mention one without seeing it somehow mirrored in Bourne.
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For below (as I've hit the 3posts/hour limit) maybe I was thinking of bourne, but only if he had a plate with the number on a bone. The thing I remember was that the number only became apparent at the hospital during an x-ray, after the accident that caused the amnesia.
Are you sure it wasn't that one?