COMPANY SPECIALIZES IN PRESERVING DECEASED PEOPLE'S TATTOOS
Cleveland-based company Save My Ink Forever offers people the opportunity to have their tattoos preserved as artworks after they pass away.
Morticians Michael Sherwood and his son Kyle came up with the idea for Save My Ink Forever a few years back, while having drinks with some friends. One of them said that he would like his tattoos preserved somehow and asked the Sherwoods how he should go about doing that. They laughed at the question at first, but their buddy pushed the issue, and it got the two morticians thinking.
Tattoos mean a lot to the people who have them inked on their bodies as well as to their families, so it made sense that some of them would like them preserved. After devising a technique for removing and preserving tattoos, the Sherwoods founded Save My Ink Forever and started taking orders.
“We are trying to do this in the most dignified manner possible. To people, some of these things really are pieces of art,” Kyle said. “It gives a family another option; instead of having just the burial, they can actually have a piece of their loved one. The tattoos are pieces of art, and it is just amazing the tattoos we get.”
Save My Ink Forever claims to be the only company in the world with a proper tattoo preservation process. They will not reveal details about it, but they do state that it is a complex process that takes roughly three or four months. Once it is done, clients are left with a parchment-like artwork that requires no maintenance at all.
In order to satisfy orders from all over the United States, Save My Ink Forever works with funeral homes from around the country, sending them special kits and video tutorials on how to remove the tattoos. The pieces of skin are then shipped to Cleveland and put through a top-secret preservation process.
Kyle adds that his company draws the line at preserving face tattoos.
The company has fulfilled requests for preserved tattoos to be turned into book covers or lampshades, but the Sherwoods say that they are just trying to follow families’ wishes, not create some sort of freak show.
In 2018, Save My Ink Forever preserved about 100 tattoos, but they have been getting a lot of exposure online since then, so that number has gone up considerably.
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