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The Strange and Burgeoning Market of Novelty Urns

A Vermont–based company now offers the ability to stuff one’s ashes in a disembodied head made in your image.
President Barack Obama's 3D-printed head is featured on Cremation Solutions' site as an example of their head-turning novelty urns.
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Rest assured that when you inevitably meet your demise, there will be plenty of ways to store your corpse: coffins, ornate urns and—if you’re extra wealthy—enormous booby-trapped pyramids. And now, custom 3-D-printed heads.

An Arlington, Vermont–based company called Cremation Solutions offers, among a number of more traditional urns and keepsakes, the ability to stuff one’s ashes in a disembodied head made in your image. Think a cyberpunk Pharaoh Khafra.

The process is simple. Customers send in a photo

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