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    Morticians go viral with tattooed human skin memorials

    -Because ashes in an urn are so 2000 and late.

    While some people might prefer cremating their dead relatives, morticians in Ohio are going viral with a skin-deep way to keep them near and dear: slicing swatches of tattooed skin from their corpses and turning it into artwork for their loved ones.

    This unconventional method of memento-making is offered by Save My Ink Forever, a Cleveland-based mortuary run by Michael Sherwood, 58, and Kyle Sherwood, 30, who were inspired by the "deep connection between people, their tattoos and their loved ones that some people will never understand."

    After three years in business — and a minor brush with web notoriety in 2018 — the father-and-son duo's fleshy memorials are suddenly going viral this week, from Australia to Salt Lake City, Utah.

    "So many people say they feel comforted being able to see that piece of their loved one as a constant reminder of them," Kyle told The Post. "It is something more personalized and more personal than just an urn or a headstone...

    Morticians go viral with tattooed human skin memorials

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    Well, that's just creepy to me.

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    Just take your dead brother uncle Sue to the taxidermist. What a weird culture this has become. I feel like I’m watching an old Vincent Price movie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Just take your dead brother uncle Sue to the taxidermist. What a weird culture this has become. I feel like I’m watching an old Vincent Price movie.
    Who’s Vincent Price?








    You’re old!



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    ....and that’s just disgusting.


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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    Who's Vincent Price?








    You're old!


    Says the pot calling.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Says the pot calling.....
    I don't know who he is.







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    Isn't he the artist that cut his ear off?





























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    Isn't he the artist that cut his ear off?
    Hmm...wonder if someone saved and preserved his ear?

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    I don't know who he is.






    Most noteable were his classic horror movies of the 50's and 60's. He did the original "The Fly" and "Return Of The Fly" and many Poe stories.

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