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Pencils made from cremated humans

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Artist Nadine Jarvis fabricates pencils from carbon left over of cremated humans -- it's part of a larger "research project into post mortem." She notes that "240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash - a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind."


Via: BoingBoing, Related: Release - messages from the deceased, Biopresence - Human DNA in Trees.

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