I write with dead people
Posted by Dan on Sep 20th, 2009
2009
Sep 20
Nadine Jarvis of the UK proposes to make pencils out of the remains of people who are cremated. There’s no order page, so I assume the pencils are still being beta tested.
Each pencil is foil stamped with the name of the person. Only one pencil can be removed at a time, it is then sharpened back into the box causing the sharpenings to occupy the space of the used pencils. Over time the pencil box fills with sharpenings - a new ash, transforming it into an urn. The window acts as a timeline, showing you the amount of pencils left as time goes by.