Keep scrolling to check out some real-life examples of memorial tattoos to get you thinking. This simple tattoo features a memorable date flanked by angel wings made of flowers and a halo on top.

Two months after McCann received his first memorial tattoo in February 2019, he and his wife Carly founded Your Angel’s Ink, an online company that infuses tattoo ink with loved ones’ ashes.

One, a 1,300-year-old mummy of a Sudanese woman, was found to have the tattoo of an angel on her inner thigh. The tattoo was formed from the Greek letters for the name Michael, and scholars ...