The Strange and Burgeoning Market of Novelty Urns
A Vermont–based company now offers the ability to stuff one’s ashes in a disembodied head made in your image.
Rest assured that when you inevitably meet your demise, there will be plenty of ways to store your corpse: coffins, ornate urns and—if you’re extra wealthy—enormous booby-trapped pyramids. And now, custom 3-D-printed heads.
An Arlington, Vermont–based company called Cremation Solutions offers, among a number of more traditional urns and keepsakes, the ability to stuff one’s ashes in a disembodied head made in your image. Think a cyberpunk Pharaoh Khafra.
The process is simple. Customers send in a photo
