What an opportunity for performance art when he dies; his tattooed skulls will disintegrate into the real skull.

Or am I the only one who can see a romantic (as in the view of life, not romance) spin on that?

There was a wrestler named Yusuf Ismail of Turkey (died July 1898) who was hugely successful and undefeated (he lost but once in a suspected rigged match). Refusing to put his earnings in the bank, he had a special "money belt" made to hold his gold, which he never removed. When the boat SS La Bourgogne sank he was among the passengers. Due to his heavy gold belt he was lost to Davey Jones' locker forever!