A Canadian man has kept the severed bones from his amputated arm.
Mark Holmgren was 17-years-old when he lost his right arm in a motorcycle accident.
Holmgren was riding his brother's motorbike when he crashed and severly damaged the nerves on his right arm and shoulder.
After losing feeling in his arm, he had it amputated in early 2019.
"If I was going to get rid of it, I wanted to do something cool with it," he told CBS radio station, Edmonton AM.
He said he had thought about it for years and had first gotten the idea from viewing Halloween decorations.
"I always see those Halloween decorations with a hand holding an ashtray or something like that. That's where I got the idea from."
Holmgren told Edmonton AM he also wanted to preserve his arm for "something to talk about and turn a negative into a positive".
He told Edmonton AM, he was surprised he was even allowed to keep the arm.
"There was a little bit of paperwork to sign and hand back to my surgeon.
"He made sure everybody knew that I was going to keep it. Then I had to pick it up from the lab.
"The process was quite simple. "
According to Edmonton AM, Holmgren carried the arm home in a garbage bag but had to keep it frozen.
"I just put it in my freezer and searched for my taxidermist."
He located Danielle Swift, a taxidermist at in Legends Taxidermy and Skull Cleaning in Drayton Valley, Alta.
Swift, although shocked, agreed to help the man clean his severed arm.
"I thought he was joking. I don't think I'll ever get a phone call like that in my life.
"I thought, whoa, that's weird but that's cool," she told CBCNews.
She said the procedure was similar to working on animals, except she used flesh-eating beetles to strip away at the meat on his arm.
Holmgren told Edmonton AM he intends to hang the arm on the wall.