cremation diamonds?

[Diamonds4Me]

Date: 8/11/2005 11:11:50 AM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 8/10/2005 9:40:57 PM
Author: Matatora
I love my family and I love our pets. I dont think a shiney object would help me grieve. That said I am for anything which helps people work through their greif...this just is not my taste.
I also think it would be kinda creepy/scary to inherit an actual peice of a family member...

what''s more creepy is that there''s no proof the ashes are from your family member. is there?

DF, I thought the exact same thing too. How do you know you aren''t paying tons of cash for a high quality CZ?

 

[coconut]

Date: 8/11/2005 2:12:54 PM
Author: Diamonds4Me

Date: 8/11/2005 11:11:50 AM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 8/10/2005 9:40:57 PM
Author: Matatora
I love my family and I love our pets. I dont think a shiney object would help me grieve. That said I am for anything which helps people work through their greif...this just is not my taste.
I also think it would be kinda creepy/scary to inherit an actual peice of a family member...

what''s more creepy is that there''s no proof the ashes are from your family member. is there?

DF, I thought the exact same thing too. How do you know you aren''t paying tons of cash for a high quality CZ?

Oh man.... that brings in a totally different perspective....
You''re so right!!!

it''s freaky.... how do you know if your ring is made from the ashes of your family member? ....

 

[Lorelei]

Lo and behold in my morning paper today was this story." I had my hero husband''s ashes made into a diamond." The general story is that a 39 year old SAS soldier was killed in Iraq just two days before he was due to come home. His widow had volunteered to go on a 3 week expedition to the Arctic circle, but was devastated to not be able to go with her husband as she had originally planned. A friend mentioned to his widow about Life gem UK, which turns human remains into diamonds. The soldiers wife sent his ashes to lifegem''s US base . Carbon was taken from the ashes and turned into graphite. This went into a diamond press and three months later a crystal emerged. The cost was about 3, 500 pounds or about$6k. The "diamond" has since been set into a trilogy ring. The widow has said " when I opened the box and held the diamond the feeling was amazing. I knew it was him."

Just a bit of food for thought.

 

[platinumrock]

I appreciate the sentiment that comes with the idea. It''s a sweet gesture that literally says, "I''ll always be with you". And what better way to do it than with diamonds! It can be handed down to the next generations to come. For me, the concept of death is still a little disturbing, so cremation diamonds probably won''t be something I''d consider. Then again, I''ve only lost my 8 year old Rottweiller to cancer, and that was devastating. But a human loved one? I can''t imagine.....so I shouldn''t say never. But it''s good to know that we have that option.