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Lost and Found: Japan Tags Dementia Sufferers With Barcodes

posted by janrinok on Saturday December 10 2016, @03:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-found,-please-return-to dept.

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A Japanese city has introduced a novel way to keep track of senior citizens with dementia who are prone to getting lost -- tagging their fingers and toes with scan-able barcodes.

A company in Iruma, north of Tokyo, developed tiny nail stickers, each of which carries a unique identity number to help concerned families find missing loved ones, according to the city's social welfare office.

The adhesive QR-coded seals for nails -- part of a free service launched this month and a first in Japan -- measure just one centimetre (0.4 inches) in size.

"Being able to attach the seals on nails is a great advantage," a city worker told AFP."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-found-japan-tags-dementia-sufferers-barcodes-093502777.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20161208171158/https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-found-japan-tags-dementia-sufferers-barcodes-093502777.html

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday December 10 2016, @08:19AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday December 10 2016, @08:19AM (#439624) Journal

    maybe a bit apprehensive about whether they will be raptured

    The whole "rapture" thing is not part of Christianity, it is a doctrine of the Millerites [wikipedia.org] circa 1840 America. Of course, some might believe in it still. http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/morford/article/Jesus-And-The-Sex-Dolls-A-mistaken-rapture-the-2867723.php [sfgate.com] But others maintain it happened years ago, but no one noticed, because only one really nice African disappeared. So yes, they are all afraid, because they know in their hearts of harts, that they are not good people, they are sinners, cretins, Trump supporters and child abusers, and the only way they might possibly be able to float up to "meat Jesus in the hair" is if God if super jam-packed with grace and mercy. But then everyone will get to go, even the atheists and the dirty f***ing Hippies, and they cannot abide that. So, yeah, Hell for the evangelicals, because they would rather go to eternal damnation than admit one of "those people" into their heaven. A special fear, a self-inflicted fear, and there is nothing Jesus can do about it. Free will and all. . .
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    So davester666, what class of demon are you?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @01:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @01:47PM (#439680)
    OMG. I just realized how closely "aristarchus" resembles Antichrist! We are so in the deep of it!