‘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
Sonya Corbin Dwyer is a professor of psychology at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. She is the author of Surviving and Succeeding in the Ivory Tower: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiating Graduate Studies (2008).
Written by Sonya Corbin Dwyer