Writing With Dead People

Artist Nadine Jarvis can help those who want to live on after death by using the carbon from their cremated remains to make pencils, about 240 of them.  The pencils, called Carbon Copies, are inscribed with the donor’s name and year of birth and death. 

See Mary Ann Lucidine, Pencils Made From Cremated Remains, Drawn: The Illustration and Cartoon Blog, April 4, 2007.