Two grieving siblings found a unique way to remember their late grandfather - by having his ashes tattooed onto their skin.
Brother and sister Andrew and Helen Bird were devastated when former RAF serviceman Reginald Alefs, 90, died from cancer in February.
The pair, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, came up with a bizarre way to keep their grandfather close by mixing his ashes with ink and etching them onto their skin.
Helen, 30, had the image of a heart and a single rose etched into her back - while brother Andrew, 27, transformed the ashes into a poetic extract.
Fittingly, the four lines Andrew used were taken from a poem written by Reginald himself.
The siblings thought it would be a really good way of paying tribute to their granddad. They were both really close to him and spent quite a bit of time with him towards the end of his life.
Andrew's four-line arm etching was made using a mixture of his grandfather's ashes and regular tattoo ink. The poem on Andrew's arm reads: 'In life we see their bodies die, free from toil and pain, but don't be too distressed my friends, their spirit still remains.'
Two teaspoons of Reginald's ashes, a former electrical engineer from Leek, Staffs, were used for both tattoos.
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