What would you write with Grampa?

Alarming!:

Carbon Copies

Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash - a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind.

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.

Let me repeat: alarming!  What if you're one of those people that chews on their pencils?  I, for one, have no deceased family members I would enjoy chewing.  Or using to draft banal blog posts.

Comments

[snackywombat]

wow. barf. that is truly disturbing. but kind of cool. better than having the urn up on the mantle, for sure. it's going to be really fun to see what creative multi-use crap people are going to come up with as a result of all of this sustainability/reuse-recycle hoopla.