Sudden cardiac death due to a mitral valve prolapse. Melissa chose her brother’s “chicken scratch” signature.Ĭhristopher, the younger of my two older brothers. Tattoo Artist: Rabbit at O’Tool Design Custom Tattoo, Davenport, Iowa By including Basil’s ashes in my tattoo, he’ll always be with me. I’m not a religious person but I have to think there’s some sort of life after death. I didn’t want to get Basil’s portrait-still can’t look at pictures of him without crying-so I went with basil leaves in the style of a botanical print. A friend of mine had gotten paw prints with her cat’s ashes and I thought that was really meaningful. In Basil’s final days, I decided to get a tattoo with his ashes in it. I got the tattoo one month after his death. He died of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP), which is neither preventable nor curable.ĭid you get the tattoo on a significant date? My kitten, Basil, who I raised and bottle-fed from three days old.
Maddie’s tattoo ink contains the ashes of her cat, Basil. Tattoo Artist: Travis at Tron City Tattoo & Piercing, Portland, Ore. Here are some tribute tattoos that have compelled me to stop someone on the street (or stalk them on the Internet), along with the stories behind them.
I’m not referring to tattoos with crosses, a date stamp or anything involving the phrase “In Memory Of.” I’m talking about a new generation of grief tats: Sound waves of a mother’s last voicemail to her son or replication of a father’s handwritten note on a daughter’s arm.
But when I encounter meaningful tributes like the ones below, I contemplate adding ink for my late husband or brother. My own tattoos - a tramp stamp and one on the inner wrist - celebrate friendships with the living. For those of us with ink-lination, memorial tattoos let us carry the memory of our loved ones everywhere - and, in many cases, share their stories when someone asks about the meaning behind them. Unlike grief, tattoos are often on public display.Īltering our bodies in memoriam of someone can be a way of confronting our grief and outwardly expressing the magnitude of our loss. Like grief, tattoos are both personal and permanent.
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