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Tattoos and child rights
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 | Tattoo Blog | No Comments
The Editor, Sir:
I need someone in authority to shed some light on this new phenomenon among children called the ‘tattoo’. I am somewhat confused as to what children are allowed to do these days.
Are they allowed to wear a permanent tattoo? Is this one of the rights of the child? Are there medical consequences down the road for these tattoo-sporting children. Recently, a mother reported that she could not give blood for her daughter’s surgery because of her tattoos.
Claiming ignorance
Many parents of tattoo-sporting children claim that they have very little control over what they do since they say that they did not know how and when the children had them done. One mother, when pressured about her child’s action, actually gave an explanation that was plausible, I suppose - that it was her (the mother’s) name that was written in the tattoo.
It is my opinion that in the same way it is illegal for children to purchase cigarettes, alcohol and games of chance, children should not be allowed to purchase permanent tattoos, and the adults who put them on should be criminally charged.
I am, etc.,
MONICA McINTYRE
Principal
Ocho Rios High
St Ann
From www.jamaica-gleaner.com Published: Tuesday | December 23, 2008
Death-wish Tattoo on Chest
Friday, December 12th, 2008 | Tattoo Blog | 1 Comment
A 79-year-old grandmother in New Zealand has just had her first tattoo – the instruction “Do not resuscitate” emblazoned in capital letters across her chest.
Paula Westoby, who lives in the South Island city of Dunedin, says the message is for the benefit of medical staff in case she is taken ill.
The smartly dressed, middle-class pensioner looked the most unlikely person to be entering a tattooist’s parlour, and confessed to feeling nervous before undergoing the procedure.
“I feel like I’m going into the execution chamber,” she joked. “But if I have a heart attack in the street I don’t want to be resuscitated at my age, and possibly live as a stroke victim for years.
“I just want to be let go, thank you very much.”
After discussing typefaces and point sizes with the tattooist, she emerged half an hour later declaring herself “thrilled” with the result.
She insisted that she expected her unambiguously expressed wishes to be respected by any medical staff who might be called on to treat her.
Ms Westoby, who a few years ago completed a free-fall skydive, is a member of Exit International, a group advocating voluntary euthanasia.
She said she now planned to lobby politicians for a law change within her lifetime to give people “the right to choose for themselves how and when they die”.
Medical staff in New Zealand have a professional and ethical duty to attempt to preserve life.
But even taken at face value, said Professor Donald Evans, of Otago University’s Bioethics Centre in the city, Ms Westoby’s tattoo could create confusion.
“They would be faced with such problems as when did she have it done? Did she have it done under any type of pressure?
“Or has she changed her mind since she had it done?” Professor Evans told TV3 News.
Article from www.telegraph.co.uk
Dr. M’s 25 Days of Deep Sea Christmas: #8 Tattoo
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | Tattoo Blog | No Comments
Inserting ink into the skin for decorative purposes, identification, a rite of passage, fertility, protection, spirituality, commitment, and status has existed since the Neolithic. The mummified Otzi the Iceman from the 4th or 5th millennium BCE 57 was covered with dots and lines across his lower body. In 2008, the modern tattoo parlor is more than just a drunken escapade for a dolphin and rainbow tattoo, but rather a temple joining one to 7,000+ years of sacred art.
Why are KZ and I into this sacred art? Of course, there is that the ladies love the bad boys. The tattoos probably have contributed to our reputation as a the “the biker gang of science.” However, it is more likely they mark significant events in our lives, our chosen identities, and the things we are spiritually connected to. Unsurprisingly, my one tattoo and many of KZ’s 1000 are ocean themed. There is also plus that it is extremely hard for John Q Public to reconcile a geek inspired tattoo. A tattooed geek? You can hear the gears grinding.
So for number eight our wish list includes more ink. Of course these brands need to be deep-sea themed. The list of potential tats is endless…the Alvin, Osedax, a carnivorous sponge, the carbon cycle, or the topography of Monterey Canyon across the back. I myself am fancying a giant isopod tattoo. We all know you can’t stop with just one!*
*Tattoo ink contains the same additive substance as puppies, Twinkies, and the 1970 Hemi’cuda.
Article from http://blogs.discovery.com/ by Dr. M
Getting A Tattoo to Celebrate Obama’s victory
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | Tattoo Blog | No Comments
MORENO VALLEY - Terry Whitaker celebrated Barack Obama’s historic election by getting a tattoo of the soon-to-be president on his arm.
The tattoo of Obama’s profile in front of the White House will serve as a permanent symbol of hope and change, he said, not just for the country but also for himself.
“My tattoos are stuff I believe in,” Whitaker said.
Get a Tattoo for Obama
Whitaker, of Moreno Valley, said he hopes people in the U.S. will learn from the election and cast aside racism and hatred.
“He’s going to be a good president and start changing things,” Whitaker said. “That’s something I need to do — throw away all the childish things I have in my life and start looking toward the future, for my kids.”
The Nov. 4 election was Whitaker’s first time in the voting booth. Even as he cast his ballot, Whitaker, 28, was not confident that Obama could win. He feared that racial prejudice would influence voters, he said.
“I didn’t think it would happen. I didn’t think it was possible,” Whitaker said. “I had to wait until the next day for it to sink in.”
The Saturday after the election, he headed to Tried N True Tattoo Studio in Moreno Valley.
Whitaker’s friends and family watched as tattoo artist Anthony “Tee” Celestino, 34, etched black ink into Whitaker’s upper left arm.
Whitaker’s sister, Tiffany Carrigan, of Moreno Valley, supported Whitaker’s decision to get the permanent memento.
“It shows he has faith in the country,” Carrigan said.
As Celestino worked, Whitaker and his onlookers chatted about the election and its effects.
“It’s the making of history,” Whitaker said. “It shows that anything can happen.”
Joshua Watson, 28, of Moreno Valley, was one of Whitaker’s friends who watched the image take shape.
Watson, who knocked on doors and made phone calls urging people to vote for Obama, said he wished he had thought of commemorating Obama’s victory with a tattoo.
“It’s cool,” Watson said. “He is the first black president and it (the tattoo) is all that embodies and symbolizes.”
Article from pe.com
