preserving a deceased loved one's tattoo is insane

[IrishGal21]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48047002

would you do this and put it on your mantlepiece? Seems to me very morbid and grim

I dont know tbh, but Ive never seen it before, there is something eerily beautiful about it (but also a bit creepy).

Ill re read it properly later because all I can hear in my head atm is 'It puts the lotion on its skin...'

Disgusting!!!! It’s up there with keeping the babies umbilical stump and teeth 🤮🤮

... all I can hear in my head atm is 'It puts the lotion on its skin...'

Er, this. I think it's grim and ghoulish, and a photo would suffice. I find the attitude that the recently bereaved should be able to do whatever they like (grieve in their own way) rather strange. As a PP said, what next, taxidermy?

Sick. If your tattoos have meaning then take a picture. Mutilating a dead body for the sake of selfish reasons and “art” doesn’t sit right with me.

Just thinking about this. Would the tattoo be passed down the family? It would end up being like Phoebe’s Gladys painting in Friends. Nobody would want it but would feel obliged to keep it. Yuck.

I wonder if those who are against the idea here are all around the same age and remember when Silence of the Lambs came out.

Its a bit grim it made me queasy looking at it !

Oh yeah it is very Jame Gumb

Well I did see TSOTL at the cinema when it came out sonja but I doubt that informed my or anyone else's opinion.
Skinning your deceased loved ones is just horrific.

I’ve had a read and a think...

It’s funny how keeping someone’s skin is “horrific” but keeping their ashes isn’t?

I don’t see the difference personally. I’m ok with it.

I dont see any difference to ashes either.
Its also what he requested.

I think each to their own.

Well one difference with ashes is that they are generally kept out of sight in an urn. Not usually on a heap on the mantlepiece.

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Looks like it belongs in a serial killer's lair to me as well.

There is no accounting for folks though & if it helps the widow with the grieving process I suppose we shouldn't judge.

Doesn’t bother me, I’d probably do it! But then I don’t find anything about death overly morbid or concerning, and I have come to terms with my own morality. Grief effects people in different ways and if this makes her feel better then who am I to judge.

When my sister died, I took photos of her tattoos and had them tattooed on me 🤷‍♀️ I doubt we could have done this as her skin was so compromised at the end. I also had the tattoo we were going to have done together done!

Going to suggest this to dh and see what he says....

Yep, very serial killer trophy. Why not just pickle his cock in a jar? Or an eyeball if you really loved his eyes? A nipple?

Why not just pickle his cock in a jar?

Well his cock is very useful but his tats are far prettier

Just no.
In Buchenwald conc. camp during the war the Kommandant's wife would look for prisoners whose tattoos she liked, she would then have them killed & the tattooed skin was made into lampshades... they were found when the camp was liberated.

For those interested, google Ilse Koch, in the Wikipedia entry there are photos of the lamps etc.

I think it's gruesome, as is having ashes made into jewellery.

No tattoo could possibly mean as much as a loved one’s face, could it? And nobody (I hope) would ever consider having their dead partner’s face preserved and stuck in a box on the mantelpiece- everyone would think that was bizarre and morbid and take it as evidence that the person was in serious need of help. But why is it different and ok to keep other bits of skin?

burning a whole body into ashes and keeping it in an urn on your mantelpiece is normal but keeping a part of preserved skin is weird?

I wouldn't keep ashes and I wouldn't display a loved one's pelt either.

But I don't think anyone in this thread has actually said that keeping ashes is OK, so not sure why it keeps being mentioned!

I'm trying to work out why this is abhorrent to me. I have the ashes of loved ones, and i have poked and prodded the ashes, but a display of skin of a loved one... well for one thing it wouldn't go with my decor...

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They have - see page 1 😉