At least he still has skin in the game...

 

This has to be one of the creepiest "memorials" I've ever encountered.

When Angelica Radevski lost her spouse unexpectedly earlier this year, the West Virginia nurse and mother-of-one made a bold decision that has stunned millions online — she preserved and framed a piece of his tattooed skin.

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“I knew we were going to do this because we had talked about it before,” Angelica said in a now-viral TikTok video.

Of the more than 70 tatts TJ had inked over his body, they chose to preserve his Pittsburgh Steelers helmet design — complete with skull imagery and finished off in his beloved team’s black and gold colors. It was his first sleeve tattoo, and a favorite of his and their son’s. Preston was the one who ultimately made the final call.

“This is Dad,” he told his mother.

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The preservation process took around 90 days. When the company returned the framed tattoo — encased in glass and set in a dark wooden frame — the moment was overwhelming ... The tattoo still held TJ’s skin texture, the fine details of his wrinkles, even stray hairs.

There's more at the link.

It seems ghoulish to me.  I mean, why stop at skin?  Why not make like the headhunters of the Amazon, who smoked, dried and shrank the heads of their enemies?  Why not other body parts?

Oh, well . . . at least the headline to this blog post practically wrote itself!

Peter