Keep Your Loved Ones Tattoo After They Die

Keep your loved ones tattoo after they die.

A company called National Association for the Preservation of Skin Art (NAPSA) helps keep your tattoos preserved and framed just like other property and can be passed down to loved ones after your death.

If you don’t want your tattoos to die with you, a new association will preserve them, skin and all. After you’re gone, family can frame them and always have a piece of you to treasure and hanging on the wall for all to see.

“Bequeath your tattoo just like a family heirloom such as a piece of jewellery or a piece of art or any other cherished possession, so that your loved ones can experience your legacy,” explains the National Association for the Preservation of Skin Art (NAPSA) in a promotional video.

Since it inevitably touches on both vanity and mortality, tattoo preservation can be a touchy and awkward topic to discuss, but serious tattoo artists and collectors are starting to ask the question, “Is there any way we can preserve this work that means so much to us?”

This is where NAPSA comes in, NAPSA is a non-profit membership association, with the goal of providing certain services to members, which include “preserving skin art on a wide scale with the ability to pass it on to loved ones.” To join NAPSA, the initiation fee is $115, plus yearly dues of $60 (dues cover preservation of one tattoo (about the size of a chest piece), and each additional tattoo is an additional $100 one time initiation fee depending on size). 

This is yet to roll over into the United Kingdom but as the popularity grows in America I’m sure it won’t be long until it comes to us.

Would you be happy to have your loved ones tattoo hanging on the wall? Would you consider having your own tattoo passed down to loved ones?