04-05-2019, 01:08 PM
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Preserving a loved one's tattoos after death
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48047002The father and son - both embalmers and funeral directors - launched the company just over two years ago.
The Sherwoods looked at two trends - there are an estimated 45 million Americans inked and tattoos are growing in popularity; and meanwhile there is a shift towards more customised funerals and memorials.
So they decided to develop a technique that allowed for the long-term preservation of excised skin art.
It took them two years to develop their specific technique.
At the request of the family, the funeral home will surgically remove the tattoo - a simple process, say the Sherwoods - and send it to a lab for preservation before it's mounted and framed behind UV-protective glass. The entire process takes about three months.
04-05-2019, 01:19 PM
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Re: Preserving a loved one's tattoos after death
I disagree entirely.If you acknowledge that tattoo is art, then why not preserve that art as a memory of someone you have loved?
It's no different from keeping a lock of their hair.
When you're dead, you're dead. The person is no longer there, so why not use their body, be it for organ donation, skin donation, eye donation, or for keeeping a part of them forever?
Get a grip people! The person has gone; you are just keeping a bit of their outer shell.
If it is a comfort for people, then why not?
04-05-2019, 01:32 PM
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Re: Preserving a loved one's tattoos after death
Originally Posted by Pyxell
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If you acknowledge that tattoo is art, then why not preserve that art as a memory of someone you have loved?
Originally Posted by Pyxell
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It's no different from keeping a lock of their hair.
Originally Posted by Pyxell
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When you're dead, you're dead. The person is no longer there, so why not use their body, be it for organ donation, skin donation, eye donation, or for keeeping a part of them forever?
Originally Posted by Pyxell
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Get a grip people!
Originally Posted by Pyxell
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The person has gone; you are just keeping a bit of their outer shell.If it is a comfort for people, then why not?
04-05-2019, 01:34 PM
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Re: Preserving a loved one's tattoos after death
Originally Posted by Omah
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..... or bones from their body ..... or their brain in a jar .....
I have no problem with organ donation .....
If some people regard body-inking as art then I'm sure there will be a ready market for pre-owned decorated skin .....
04-05-2019, 02:24 PM
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Re: Preserving a loved one's tattoos after death
It's interesting that people who can kill an animal in order to wear its skin on their back or their feet, or to sit on, or who can chop off its limb to cook and eat it, have so much disgust over taking a part of a dead....dead!......person's skin to remember them by!It's a choice; it may not be your choice, but that doesn't make it abominable.
04-05-2019, 02:47 PM
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Re: Preserving a loved one's tattoos after death
Personally I don't much like tattoos, I grew up at a time when they were considered as suitable only for sailors and criminal types! Although I have to admit that some are very artistic so could be called 'art' in the sense of the word.If the deceased has made their last wishes quite clear and that is what those left behind also wish then surely that is up to them entirely.
Having read through the wording on the link I can see no mention of cost. Nothing in this world is for nothing so there obviously would be a cost. Should this make it to the UK, would it I wonder, be extortionately expensive adding to the high cost of some funerals that have already been under investigation as being a rip-off at a time of vulnerability for relatives?
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