It's our policy here that if you are killed in battle with our cephalopod enemies that you get a fine cremation, a full internment or burial at sea. I didn't know how I feel about someone's ashes being used to make pencils. I often lick a pencil tip before I put one to paper so tasting dead people is not something I am too enthused about.
"Carbon Copies. Artist Nadine Jarvis can create pencils from the carbon of human cremains. “240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash”. Just think — after you die, you can live on through other people’s sketchbooks! (viaBoingBoing)"
Would you like these pencils to be your legacy to the world?
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Interesting. I wonder who I wrote with today?
Ew.
Just another reason why my insistence on a viking burial doesn't seem so stupid anymore.
Ick. Ack. No. Hopefully by the time I go, they'll be able to reduce us to less than ashes. I don't even want to leave that much behind...
I would like to be a #3 pencil. Those #2 pencils are snooty and I don't like that crowd.
Actually that faux gold lettering is pretty nice too.
I've left specific instructions with my wife that I am to be shot out into space after I pass on. No cremation. No autopsy. And I mean into space, not just up and back. I want to be floating for eternity among the stars. (on the off chance that aliens or future humans find me and are able to revive me.
If that can't happen I've told her I want my remains to be turned into a diamond. My wife must then have it set on a necklace that says "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" and I must be passed on to our grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc.
What? My wishes are simple. Why are you looking at me like that?
All perfectly reasonable requests MD.
can you request hardness? I prefer HB. can I get just lead refills? So many questions.
Call you shouldn't lick your pencil tips, you will get graphite poisoning.
I think this is a ploy by pencil companies to keep the dead pencil alive by using the dead.
xoRobyn
erm... ick? I chew on my pencils. I REALLY don't want to chew on dead people. There is a long list of live people I'm willing to chew on, but dead? Ick.
That is awesome. But really? Licking a pencil?
It'a amazing!
I love to sketch using 5B pencils!
Recycle yourself!
WoW, sign me in.
How come we never see your sketches F.I.?
Nah....I'd end up sitting in a damn coffee cup on some yoyo's desk...
I foresee only one problem with this pencil idea. What happens when you use all the pencils? You just literally used all that remains of your loved one. Would that provide a sense of closure or would it just bring back the horrid memories of losing that person. Also, what happens if you break one in half? At least shrinks will be employed till we are all pencils.
-Bryan
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