Our tattoos, ourselves

[snopes]

I'm Jewish, and tattoos are forbidden by the Torah, right? Even more, you can't get buried in a Jewish cemetery if you've got one. That's why Larry David bribes a gravedigger to bury his mother, despite a small tattoo on her behind, in one of my favorite episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

But it turns out that David -- and the rest of us -- are wrong. Nobody knows how this particular urban legend began, but there's simply no evidence that Jewish cemeteries bar people with body ink. So rest assured that your loved ones can go to their resting place, tattoo or no tattoo.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...,3328611.story