The duo operates the Ohio-based company Save My Ink Forever, which removes a corpse’s tattooed skin, treats it, and then returns the tattooed skin to the deceased’s loved ones. Some funeral homes—particularly those with more traditional religious values—also aren’t on board and have refused to extract the skin, Sherwood said. The Wellcome Collection at London’s Science Museum is considered the largest repository of preserved tattooed skin, with over 300 individual fragments. He envisioned a future in which customers who preserved tattooed skin could agree to loan it for display on a limited time basis. One day, that preserved skin might even appear behind glass in Sherwood’s future collection for the world to see.