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I’m not sure if I’m appalled by the sheer tackiness of this – in that way that I am by American funeral homes – or if I think it is a good idea. Either way I am totally intrigued. A US company (where else?) called LifeGem will take the ashes of your recently cremated loved one, extract the carbon from the ashes and then, you guessed it, manufacture a diamond. They’ll even handle the cremation so that they can extract as much carbon as possible and then you can have two – maybe even more depending on the size you want to end up with.
Set them in a ring or a pendant. The handle of a paper knife perhaps. Ear studs. And there’s more… you get the remains of the ashes back as well! What a bargain.
See, when I heard about this my initial reaction was one of horror. How could any woman contemplate wearing their dead husband on their finger? But after I thought about it for a bit it makes more sense than a fancy urn on the mantelpiece. And it can become a family heirloom. You can imagine it down the centuries can’t you? That ring is my great, great grandfather. This pendant was my Mum. The earring? Ah, that was my pony when I was little.
Ashes to ashes. Dust to diamonds. Why not?
I guess this takes reincarnation to another level.
Why can’t some people just be happy with decomposing for a few millennia, and turning into something useful.
If you got enough people to agree you could make a whopper out of dead relatives.
Museums will have them on display in the future, “come and see Maggie Thatcher in all her glory the great politician of the late 20th Century”
Hey yes. You can imagine ‘famous’ people being auctioned off on eBay!
Wouldn’t it be more fitting for Maggie to become a lump of coal?
*laughing* Oh lord. I wish I’d known about this when…. um. Well, since I’m probably about as un-familial and irreverent as you will ever encounter I’ll just stop there….