Cremation urns that look like the dear departed
Cremation Solutions sells "personal urns" that look like the person whose ashes they hold.
Now we can create a custom urn in the image of your loved one or favorite Celebrity.Personal urns (Via Cynical-C)New advances in facial reconstruction and 3D printing have made it possible to have an urn made in the image of anyone from just a photograph.
Never forget a face. Personal Urns combine art and technology to create a family heirloom that will be cherished for generations.
Available in Two Sizes
• Full sized will hold all of the ashes of any adult
• Keepsake size is about 1/4 of the full sized and will hold about 25 cubic inches
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That's not at all creepy.
Wouldn't you love to have that on your mantle?
Does it have to be the head? Is there a Jeff Stryker model?
I kind of want to get a few (myself and some friends) just to decorate the shelves with familar heads
surely cheaper, in these straitened times, to use the ~actual~ head...
It looks just like the products available at www.thatsmyface.com
aye, t'is. bit smelly summat though.
if you love somebody,
if you really love somebody,
you'll let them reek...
They should attach a handle to those things and sell them as cups. I bet there'd be quite some people that would like to drink out of the one or the other celebrity ^_^
I'm sure this will look even better when the urn looks like 89 year old Aunt Edna.
"or favorite Celebrity"
Until they're sued by celebrities for unauthorized use of their likeness.
It'd be kind of cool to put in my will that I want my ashes contained in the head of some B-level celebrity, though.
Well, that's setting new standards in 'tasteless' - a copy of your loved one's disembodied head to put above the fireplace like a trophy...
oh no.
any photo eh? let's see them make a "Toby" mug out of this then
http://www.cgnews.com/images/autodesk_pirates_article.jpg
$2,600! Wow. And they don't have an example of a person who isn't bald. I suspect they look substantially stupider. Or maybe they stick a wig on it...
Upgrade includes body
Transfer the ashes to a safe container and use the (cleaned) head as a Jell-o serving dish for Halloween:
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Gelatin-Mold/dp/B0009VJ2IG
my mother made one of these for herself back in her hippie days out of clay, pretty traumatic to see as a kid but not nearly as uncanny valley as that.
Is it possible to get one shaped like the dear departed without the hideous brain surgery gash across the forehead?!
This is perhaps the funniest thing ever posted on boingboing.
Can I get one that blinks?
What about a cremation snow-globe? They seem to have missed a great product in that.
Is it just me or is the head in the picture not one of the extras from Half-Life? or that banana phone video or something like that?
The company name "Cremation Solutions" sounds like it should come in a bottle.
Marked "flammable".
Reminds me of:
1. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, monkey brain dinner.
2. Hannibal, Hannibal Lector brain dinner
3. When the crypt goes creak,
And the tombstones quake.
Spooks come out for a swinging wake.
Happy haunts materialize,
And begin to vocalize.
Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize
Now who's visage would I select to hold my remains, some celebrity...oh I know, young Christopher Lloyd from Cuckoo's Nest! That would solve the no hair policy, or maybe Wez from Road Warrior...they could do a red mohawk no problem.
He looks kinda surprised...
Yes to this as a serving dish for a gelatinous dessert.
But as a mantle decoration - Aaaaaaaaaugh! Run away!
Best. Cookie jar. Ever.
my wife saw this, gasped, and made me promise i would get her ashes into a pinhead bust from hellraiser.
Can I have an extra-large head model of Dick Cheney to use as a catbox???
OH PLEASE!
I want one made in the likeness of Anton Szander LaVey or maybe Aleister Crowley. Then I can fill them with gummi worms for halloween.
It would be great if the head also spoke on occasion. "I am watching you from heaven!" Just in case the damage has not been fully done.
Didn't they just steal this idea from ancient Egyptians where the pharoahs had face masks over their mummies?
Can they make one so the likeness DOESN'T look like it just got its bum pinched, though? I wouldn't want to spend the afterlife knowing everyone thought I'd been goosed just prior to death.
That's creepy. It reminds me of the Hannibal movie where he cut off the top of the guy's head.
I'd love a ceramic belgian shepherd crock to put my belgian shepherd's ashes in, when the time comes.
Can you get it on a plaque to mount on the wall?
RealDoll body not included.
Do they have to be people? What about a Darth Vader head. Or maybe a unicorn.
No! No! No!
Antinous, you may fancy free will, but your mind is in fact my basest thoughts, transported a few hours back in time .
I GuarAN-Tee you that if it were Ron Jeremy, they'd use something other than the cranial vault.
Yeah, I checked. This guy died by being hit by a bus in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbK-9gHk_nI
It can be pretty upsetting to realize you're forgetting someone's face. If this helps, well, cool, I guess. I agree that it would be nice to see one with hair, especially for that price.
I don't really understand why everyone's so horrified. It's not that different from commissioning a portrait of the deceased. This one is just 3D.
Someone build a replica of one of those life-support containers in Futurama around the head and we're in business.
This ranks up on something I would love to have done to me, but would not want a loved one in an urn that looked like their head.
As it happens, I am staying at my mother's house at present. This is a place where I may stumble over the ashes of her dead dog (next to the fireplace in the living room), the ashes of my dead grandparents (on a shelf in her bedroom) and the whole house is covered in little parian ware statues of angels and cherubs and candles in the nature of a slightly run down Victorian mausoleum.
The house is old and rambling, and was known by my friends as a teenager as Mildew Mansions.
But even my mother, even *my* mother, would baulk at this.
I stumbled over a web page with the most unusual gravestones and memorials, and some of those were quite touching and nice... etched full size pictures of the deceased, models of their motorbikes etc. Somehow the uncanny head is just creepy and inappropriate.
My mother would probably go for it if they did dogs, however....
This is a bit reminiscent of a microfiction story I wrote back in 1997, "Grandma's Place."
Http://www.well.com/user/jleft/wordz/grandma.html
In this story, however, the ashes were combined with cement and molded into a scaled-down 3D scanned replica of the deceased, and dressed in a smaller version of their real clothes. And this became the centerpiece for a multimedia memorial shrine.
Seriously though this is a bit creepy. Imagine having your mom and dad's ashes in two head urns on the mantle, watching you, day after day. Soon enough you'll imagine their eyes watching you, giving you looks of disapproval. Soon you'll find yourself stopping and saying to the heads, "What? What did I do?" In the middle of the night you start to hear whispered conversations from downstairs in familiar voices. Imagine bringing home a date and introducing your date to your mom and dad's ash heads?
"Mom, Dad, I'd like you to meet..."
There really are no limits to bad taste. Just awful.
I'd like a nice chianti to go with that.
@#27 by [i]ihakes[/i]
[i]He looks kinda surprised...[/i]
You would too in fairness
When did Daniel 'Kid Poker' Negreanu die?
@45 above
"It can be pretty upsetting to realize you're forgetting someone's face. If this helps, well, cool, I guess."
That's what regular photography is for....
This?
http://www.kansastravel.org/davismemorial.htm
I'd get one of those of myself but with a Big Green Spinning Diamond mounted on top.
@44: THIS.
"made in your likeness or your favorite celebraty" haha
Never thought the phrase "keepsake size" would give me such epic heebie-jeebies.
Oh, to spend eternity in Bruce Campbell's chin...
$2600?! Heck, I could immortalize your loved one's head for the price of a hacksaw and a pickle jar.
Looking at their website, you'd think they've only made one of these things so far.
Can it be wired for a lamp? Can I then get a pair for both ends of the mantel? Any discount for two?
*CRINGE*
Very Roman.
http://images.google.com/images?q=roman%20funerary%20bust
This makes me wish there was a link next to "Favorite This" called "WTF?!?1!".
WTF indeed! But I've seen all this before at ThatsMyFace. They've got scary lifelike face masks too and almost normal-looking custom action figures.
I'm not sure about getting my head on an urn, but there are way more cremation urns then i ever hoped existed:
http://www.perfectmemorials.com/cremation-urns/