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    Company will preserve your tattoos when you die

    Why let a great tattoo go to waste when you die?

    A new organization of tattoo artists and enthusiasts is helping people who don't want to take their ink with them when they go. These folks plan to have their favorite tattoos preserved and displayed for posterity by family members.

    Charles Hamm, founder of the Cleveland-based National Association for the Preservation of Skin Art, launched his organization at The Biggest Tattoo Show on Earth in Las Vegas earlier this month.

    Its website says it provides the service "so that your story, your spirit, and your legacy can live on, for generations to come."

    It costs $115 plus an annual fee of $60 to join the group, also known as Save My Ink. Members can register one tattoo "roughly the size of a chest piece" for postmortem preservation. They can pay another $100 for additional tattoos or to double the size of the ink that's commemorated.

    Hamm, a former KPMG partner who co-owns Square City Tattoo, a tattoo partner in the Cleveland suburb of Chardon, said that his organization has an embalmer on staff and has already preserved 21 tattoos.

    One of Hamm's customers wanted to preserve a heart tattoo he had with the name of his toddler Hunter on it, so that the boy would always know his father loved him.



    http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/news...o-save-my-ink/

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    I posted that on FB saying I think it's gross and insane and this is one of the comments I got.

    Gross and insane? Not to those that have lost a loved one and do not know The Lord to know we don't continue to mourn the dead with a piece of them. I suppose we have all at some time kept a keepsake from our family member that has passed away. So gross and insane? No just different. Sometimes we have think before speaking, the world is watching and listening to US Christians.
    So because I'm a Christian, I can't think that peeling your loved one and preserving and mounting their skin is just plain wrong? And I shouldn't say so because an unsaved person who thinks it's fine might be offended???

    Puh-leeease!!!!!

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