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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, daily I witnessed death, and lives becoming forgotten as if life didn't matter -that affected me. The idea to do something about this came to me at the funeral of young heroic L.A. firefighter Kelly Wong who died tragically in the line-of-duty in 2017. At his 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...that's all we get... is a little 'dash'?" It all seemed so unjust! That is where I had the idea to replace the dash with an engraved QR code to scan it and see a person's whole life in photos and video so they would never be forgotten.

I made the very first Dash QR code for Kelly's firehouse memorial, and it wasn't as easy as I had hoped: I founded Dash.

Thank you!

Sincerely,
David R. Gastelum, Founder at Dash

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