Designer Nadine Jarvis has created a set of pencils made from the carbon of human bodies. Not just any bodies. Cremated human remains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash – a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind.

From the website:

“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.”

WTF? So first you creamate your loved one, then you turn them into pencils. Then you sharpen away at their remains leaving them as flaky pencil shavings. Doesn’t this seem like a hugely disrespectful thing to do with someones body? Or maybe the pencils become posessed and act as a link of final communication with the deceased?! The whole idea just seems creepy to me. Would you turn a loved one into pencils?