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Share a life story, love story, and most importantly a life tribute. We print your Dash on memorial cards, programs, keepsakes, especially urns, and memorial markers.

QR codes have become common place everywhere for easily finding information, but the DASH QR code tells someone's life story. We are your home for making a loved one's Dash.

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The Dash

Scan the Dash and see someone's entire life story. We are all living our Dash and filling it with memories, achievements, and moments with those most important to us. Life is short... live your best Dash!

The Dash Poem

The Founding

As a veteran firefighter/EMT in Los Angeles, I witnessed end of life on a daily basis, the second tragedy afterwards of being forgotten, and it took a tragic loss of a young hero to realize a solution to this problem.

That young hero was firefighter Kelly Wong. On June 3, 2017, he was climbing a one hundred foot aerial ladder during training and fell six stories. At Kelly's funeral, I noticed a gravestone and stared at the little dash symbol in between the dates of birth and death and I thought, "after pouring our heart and soul into this life...all we get is a little 'dash'?" It seemed so unjust, so I had an idea to replace the dash with an engraved QR code; scan it to see a person's photo memories so they are never forgotten.

I made the very first Dash QR code for Kelly's firehouse memorial, and it wasn't as easy as I had hoped. That and being forgotten after we are gone, inspired me to found Dash.

As a firefighter, I rescued people, as the founder at Dash I rescue people from being forgotten.

If you need help creating a Dash for a loved one, please click on the button below. Thank you!

Sincerely,
David R. Gastelum, Founder at Dash

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