Originally published at: This service retrieves your dead loved ones' tattoos and preserves them as framed mementos | Boing Boing
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I looked, and now I’m not gonna unsee it. Damnit.
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OK, but hear me out: a picture of the tattoo. Instead of a dead person’s skin framed inside your house.
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I imagine the removal process being like yanking off a large plaster, or, in the case of the very large tattoos, like yanking a table cloth.
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Meh, Ed Gein did it first.
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Blech, you win. 
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I dunno… It is different but there have been a lot ways people memorialized the dead that we would find odd now. They used to have reliquaries for various religions, for example.
I think people should be allowed to explore different ways to memorialize someone.
Just - for the love of god, not this one…
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You don’t even have to replace “dead loved ones” with “victims” for this to be creepy.
My Dad had a tattoo of Felix the Cat that he got in the Marines in the late 1950s. Over the years, Felix got shorter and stouter. A copy of his tattoo in his 80s would have been ridiculous to save.
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Isn’t this part of the plot of “Evil Dead”. Or something.
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There’s a lot of taxidermists around me and I’ve always wondered how deep their hobby would go…
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Yeah, get the original tattoo artist (or another one) to draw the tattoo again. That would actually be a good memento
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These nazi guys were the worst.
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That opening image is nightmare fuel. Something about the sheen and how he is holding it.
The rest of the story is interesting though.
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It’s not the same, but still, it reminds me of the Dr Who episode at the end of the universe where one of the characters is a woman reduced to skin stretched in a frame with just her face on it.
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Lady Cassandra has entered the chat
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Also The Umbrella Academy this year
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From the examples given on the website, I’d say that’s the only one worth saving. American Graffiti logo? WTF!?!
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