We can create a custom urn in the image of your loved one, favorite celebrity or hero!

Personal Urns are built from just one or two photographs of the cherished person’s face. This is the most heartwarming and special memorial product available anywhere.

Isn’t this a great idea? Now you can have the disembodied head of your recently deceased loved one, stuffed with its own remains like some kind of turducken of the damned.

Not into your husband’s head? How about the head of “your hero?” Just bring in a couple of snaps of say, Barack Obama, and before you know it, your beloved will be resting comfortably in his hollowed out skull. Talk about Obamacare!

Sports more your thing? Who could resist the sloe-eyed gaze of Derek Jeter, watching you thoughtfully from the bookcase, with your loved one on his mind?

Or if the whole thing isn’t weird enough for you, get one of your own head, and turn it into a bong.

- Personal Urns from Cremation Solutions

When Bart Jansen’s cat (named Orville Wright, after the famous aviator) was hit by a car and killed, he did what any Dutch artist would do. He stuffed it and turned it into a radio controlled helicopter.

The Orvillecopter is now on exhibit at the Kunstrai art festival in Amsterdam.

See Orville in flight:

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As you may know, one of my very favorite topics around here is the feeding frenzy that kicks in on Etsy whenever someone of note dies. I call it, TragiCrafting™.

But let’s be clear about one thing: TragiCrafting™ is not fueled by the desire to make a buck off a dead celebrity. That would be so very cynical and wrong, and not at all steampunk and upcycled and covered with mass produced octopus pendants.

No, TragiCrafting™ is different. TragiCrafting™ is all about healing.

It’s beautiful, isn’t it? Yes. Yes, it is.

And yet, TragiCrafters™ can be so very fickle. They’ll tag a cake dish with “Steve Jobs” faster than you can download another iTunes update, but Thomas Kinkade dies and no one even plugs in their glue gun. And only one person bothered to put together a treasury for George “Goober” Lindsay.

So when Donna Summer hustled off her mortal coil, I didn’t know what to expect. Would the sensitive crafters of Etsy come through? Or would we keep refreshing this page to no avail?

Well, I’m sad to say that the TragiCrafting™ I’ve been hoping for on this one has not materialized, aside from the obligatory shitty plastic wall clocks with unlicensed photos:

It’s not much, but the important thing is, CRAFTERS BE GETTING THEIR HEALING ON

BONUS: It’s hard to believe that someone actually used “Last Dance” as the name of a treasury, but God love them, they are made of stronger stuff than I am.

Extra points for the inclusion of Doc Martens, which as you know, were a staple of Donna Summer’s wardrobe in the ’70s.

ROCK ON

SUPER BONUS: TRAGI-TAGGING: This is the act of taking a completely unrelated piece of crap that’s been mouldering in your Etsy store for months, and finding some pathetic connection to the recently deceased.

I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, HOT STUFF

BEEP BEEP

More Tragicrafting™:

- Amy Winehouse
- Davy Jones
- Steve Jobs
- Whitney Houston
- Dick Clark