A widower respected her husband's wishes and has his tattoos ''preserved'' to keep framed on her wall.

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The 41-year-old man named Chris Wenzel - who owned a body art shop called Electric Underground Tattoo - made a pact with his wife Cheryl to save his designs for their children and grandchildren to see when he died.

Speaking to The Globe and Mail, Cheryl said: ''I thought, that's different, but yeah, that's cool. I don't care what it takes I'm going to get this done for him.

''You can hang a picture on a wall. A tattoo is something that has been done for hundreds of years. It's just preserving it.''

Cheryl discovered the US company 'Save My Ink Forever' which works on preserving tattoos and involves an intense surgical process.

Kyle Sherwood, who runs the company with his dad told CTV Saskatoon: ''Tattoos, you know, tell a story about a person.

''And for someone to get something tattooed on them that they're displaying for life, you know, means something to them. You wouldn't burn or bury a Picasso and that's what some of these pieces are.''