The funeral home that offers to remove and preserve the tattoos of the deceased

An American company, called Save My Ink Forever, offers a unique service: remove tattooed skin patches of the people who die to treasure it forever.

It almost makes sense, despite the obscurity of the matter, many tattoos are true works of art. In that sense, then, its preservation doesn’t seem crazy. Or is it very different from storing ashes?

Be that as it may, the truth is that the company, according to the media, is gaining customers who in life want their tattoos, which mean so much to them, to outlast them.

The idea came to Michael Sherwood and his son Kyle, who ran a funeral home in Cleveland. And it arose, according to what was told to the local press, while they had a few drinks in a bar with a group of friends.

One of them said he would like his tattoo to be preserved in some way and asked the Sherwoods how he was supposed to do it. Everyone laughed at the question, except the undertakers The topic kept spinning around their heads.

The rationale they have weighed is that tattoos mean a lot to the people who have them on their bodies, as well as their families, so it made sense that some of them they would like to keep them.

So, father and son devised a technique for removing and preserving tattoosand they founded Save My Ink Forever and started offering their services.

“We are trying do it in the most dignified way possible. To people, some of these things are truly works of art,” said Kyle Sherwood.

“Give that family another option instead of just having the remains or burial, we can still do that, actually. have a part of your loved one. They are works of art and the tattoos we get are amazing,” he added.

Save My Ink Forever claims to be the only company in the world with the correct tattoo preservation process. They add that they won’t reveal details about it, but they do regulate it It’s a complex process that takes about three to four months..

“Once done, customers are left with a piece of art similar to parchment that does not require any maintenance,” they explained.

A growing business and the imposition of limits

The Sherwoods admit they didn’t expect their project to be so successful. And this only thousands of orders from all over the United States. And the demand does not stop growing.

Indeed, they had to ally with funeral homes across the countryby sending them special kits and video tutorials to correctly learn the technique they have created.

“We are trying to do it in the most dignified way possible. For people, some of these things are really works of art,” Kyle said, adding that Save My Ink Forever draw a line in the preservation of facial and genital tattoos.

The company has received requests for the surviving tattoos to become book covers or lampshades, but the Sherwoods say they are trying to fulfill the families dying wishes, not create kind of a sideshow show.

In 2018, the year of its birth, Save My Ink Forever kept about 100 tattoos, but since then the orders have not stopped arriving. Now they calculate that there will already be around 400 a year.