-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