‘A tattoo is for life’: how memorial tattoos help the bereaved
More intimate and permanent than other reminders, tattoos offer an embodied form of meaning-making in the wake of loss
by Jennifer L Buckle & Sonya Corbin Dwyer
Jennifer L Buckle is professor of psychology at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. She is the co-author of Parenting After the Death of a Child: A Practitioner’s Guide (Routledge, 2011).
Written by Jennifer L Buckle