Thursday, August 14, 2025

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.

. . .

“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


14 comments:

Tree Mike said...

I'm the guy that says "Nothing makes ME sick!", but that is well into the cringe scale.

Anonymous said...

Who's to say?
I mean, I wouldn't, right, but who am I to judge? My mother and father's ashes sit in urns in my sister's closet. She takes Dad out for Bill's games so he can watch. Do I think it's healthy? Shit no! But if it helps her cope, well, then I'm good w/ that?
Ditto the tattoo... Not my cup of tea, but you do you.

rickr said...

I can only think of Ilse Koch, the B**** of Buchenwald...

Sherm said...

At least she didn't make a pair of shoes from his skin and an ashtray from his skull, a'la Big Nose George Parrot.

ruralcounsel said...

Seems to me there was a joke about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans along these lines. Putting her right next to Trigger and Bullet's taxidermied bodies.

audeojude said...

Guy's dead.. passed on to where ever... sounds like he okayed it ahead of time also. There are a lot of traditions and cultures that differ on burial, from burning, to burying to crypts to hanging the shrunken head somewhere in the house or around your neck. Bit cringe to me personally but you do you... can't see where there is actual harm to anyone. Still, bit cringe!

wheels said...

A few years ago, I watched a documentary on tattoos. Part of the show was devoted to, if I recall correctly, a Japanese man whose body was almost completely covered with tattoos, and who had donated his skin to a tattoo museum. The entire skin (minus his head) was standing in a glass case on full display.

As for coping and ashes, my Dad's younger sister wore a necklace containing some of his ashes. I have to wonder what her kids did with it when she died.

Peteforester said...

Hell; stretch the entire skin over one of Musk's robots and put it in the garage until the lawn needs to be mowed, a bill needs to be paid, or something heavy needs to be lifted... It'll be like "Dad" never left...

Anonymous said...

Brings up the question of how much of a body can be kept for "display", other than some sort of medical or other official purpose. How uniform is this around the world? Not sure I really want to know, actually...

Harbinger62 said...

Skin in the game? I was afraid she made him into a basketball or something.

Anonymous said...

I dunno, it sounds like a dead tissue, I mean issue, to me.

Aesop said...

And the catalog of mental illness not mandating hospitalization grows by another few paragraphs.

lynn said...

You have got to be kidding me. That is sick.

Anonymous said...

Which is fiction.