Take off the skin of a loved one as a keepsake – a new service from funeral agencies

Here you will learn about a cutting-edge innovation in the Western funeral industry, where funeral agencies began to offer a service to remove a skin area from the deceased for subsequent transfer to relatives or loved ones in order to preserve the memory of the deceased..

Skinning a loved one as a keepsake – cutting edge solutions in the funeral industry

If you exaggerate the situation and squeeze it to the maximum in the wording, it turns out that funeral homes literally offer you to remove the skin from a loved one, make a rug out of it, shove it into a frame and hang it on the wall..

It sounds kind of crazy, but it is practiced today, though abroad..

By the way, and you would have removed the skin of your loved one, hung it on the wall, could have fun or nostalgia contemplating it in a frame on the wall?

As it was said on the pages of the Mirror edition, tattoo drawings from the body of a loved one can be very significant, carry a sentimental component or have a high artistic value, which also plays out in favor of preserving such an area of ​​skin..

Where is it?!

Cleveland, USA, Michael Sherwood and his children, who are the owners of the funeral agency, after in a personal conversation raised the topic of the importance of tattoos in modern society and for each person individually, they decided that such a service has a place in their business. Rather, they implemented the idea and began to provide a similar service for everyone..

The entrepreneurs named their service “Save my ink forever” and added it to the price list of their funeral agency..

Initially, a wave of indignation arose among the local residents, but rather it turned out that this practice is in demand and the service is ordered (periodically), and not just a “dead item on the menu”.

The owners of the funeral home, who are also its employees, say that the procedure for preserving a skin area with a deceased tattoo is not an easy procedure and a full cycle of creating a skin fragment with a tattoo under glass in a frame can take 2-4 months, and should begin within the first 72 hours after the death of a person.

The procedure itself, according to the undertakers, is carried out with the preservation of proper respect and honor for the deceased, does not affect the subsequent burial of the body or its cremation.

The only taboo is keeping tattoos in this way that were applied to the face or genitals, but this is due to the personal beliefs of the funeral home staff..

Social media reaction

Despite the fact that there is no particular noise at the place of residence of the “enterprising gravediggers”, this topic received an extremely negative response on social networks..

The service “Save me ink forever” and the Sherwood family in the comments began to be compared with Ed Gein, a serial killer who, after committing murders, removed the skin from his victims and made masks and garments from it..

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