In 1984, a tattoo-obsessed couple, Mary and Sam Jones, came up with an idea that would surpass the conventional "I heart" type of tattoos, which they considered an overdone cliché. Instead, with the aid of a surgeon and tattoo artist, Sam Jones would have "Mary Jones Forever" written across his left ventricle, in Chinese kanji. The procedure drew the attention of thousands of enthusiasts across the world. When Sam Jones died of complications due to having a tattoo machine continuously piercing his beating heart, it was revealed that the procedure had a 99% chance of fatality. Almost overnight, people were dragging their tattoo artist and lining up in front of surgeon's offices. In order to offset the high mortality rate associated with tattooing the human heart and have some sort of fixed