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Cremation? Burial? How about Diamonds?
travisbecker writes "From Reuters via Yahoo! comes this story. "A Chicago company (Lifegem) says it has developed a process for turning cremated human remains into diamonds that can be worn as jewelry." As for the quality... "If it's done slowly and with a great deal of care, one could have a reasonably high-quality diamond," according to a quote in the story." This should not be confused with our earlier diamond discussion.
Now I know what my wife will have done with me after she has me bumped off!
I can just dig up bodies and make diamonds out of them? Now I can actually make MONEY from my hobby!
Are these diamonds still a girl's best friend?
Oh, this? It was my grandmother.
You mean it was your grandmother's ring?
No. It is my grandmother.
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Now saying "You're a real gem" is a deaththreat, then?
... I could finally sell my uncle's body on EBay...
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Remember the general guide of two months worth of bodies for an engagement ring.
yes, but wouldn't an evil villian want to have there enemys made into jewlery they can wear?
thats the problem with todays youth, nobody thinks about the super villian.
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Gee, I guess Ted Williams died too soon. Now we have such many and varied options for carcass disposal.
I guess it's better than being turned into a lampshade.
My wife for one, we both think that being buried is a big waste and ashes would just be thrown away anyways, so why not cremate me to be used as a beautiful diamond pendant she can alsways wear to remember the good times we had, the question is should I fatten myself up before I am about to die to make a bigger diamond?
One last thought, who else thinks that this will be Anna Nicole Smith's next move with the ashes of that old guy?
I will not be trained.
Oh forgot about the Goth Market, how cool and depressing would it be to get your sister who committed suicide to be made into a diamond ring you can wear and always get truly depressed!
>> There may be a big market given how many baby
>> boomers are getting into Buddhism.
Getting into it!?! Where have you been? Try gotten into (35 years ago) and since moved onto the newest boomer craze, Mercedes SUVs.
We have a new meaning for the term "Family Jewels".
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who, really, would want to wear their dad in a ring
It's not all that strange, it's just a matter of perspective.
Around the turn of the century (1900) it was very fashionable to wear jewelry made from a dead loved one's hair. Nobody thought it was morose.
Even now, how many people have dear ol' Mom's ashes in a jar on the mantle? Isn't that a little... weird... when you think about it?
My grandfather was buried behind the cabin at his deer-hunting camp. Isn't that a little... creepy?
People build marble buildings to house their remains. Now that's strange!
As for me, I want to be composted.
Remember to look for Cut, Clarity, Color, Carat and Corpse.
You call me a pedant? I prefer the term "correct"
For years I wanted this!
But, do I have to be cremated first? Aren't I carbon enough in this form?
*sigh*
Nobody ever sells me what I really want!!
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So my family jewels really can become the family jewels?
Backup a little more... Ok, here comes your disc Aunti.. Ok, who's next... Rover? Ok puppy..
Timmy, take that disc out of your mouth and don't eat your Grandpa..
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Considering that the United States has more fat people than anywhere else in the world, that still makes us the richest country, even if you compact us all into diamonds (meaning quantity of diamond per person).
I particularly enjoy the idea that after the departed one's cremains have been converted to diamonds, the diamonds will be graded. One has to wonder:
--Will the obese deceased yield a higher number of carats?
--Will the chaste deceased score higher on clarity?
--Will the intelligent deceased get a "brilliant" cut?
And, of course...
--What affect will the race of the deceased have on the color?
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So she said to me: "I'm getting a diamond from you, one way or another."
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lets hear it for fat grandparents...
bigger diamonds!
ill take grandma earrings, grandpa inlayed into my cane, and if possible i'd like sparky my dog as a necklace.
my aunt loved music, perhaps she can focus the lazer on my cd player or something to that effect.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Can do. Just post your name, social security number (US residents only please), address, next of kin, and your lawyer's name and we'll send a Vinnie right over with a branch chipper. Oh, you want to WAIT a while... Want the installment plan?
Collect the whole family!
And I got this fabulous tennis bracelet.
Instead of proposing with that passed down family diamond ring with "This was my grandmother's ring..." it would now become... "This is my grandmother..."
Now I know the answer to:
a) whether to get an expensive engagement ring or not, and
b) How to get rid of my mother in law
all in one!
So does Anonymous Coward have good karma?
A friend's father wants his ashes to put into a coffee can and given to his children so that when their cars get stuck in the snow, they can put some ashes under the tires so that he can help them out one more time. Personally, just put me in a garbage bag on garbage day :-)
yes, but wouldn't an evil villian want to have there enemys made into jewlery they can wear?
I would perfer using them as a focus for my laser death beamy thing (which, always seem to, for whatever reason, require a huge diamond of some kind).
Though with the carat requirements of most laser death thingies, I would likely need to get multiple arch enemies compressed into one uber diamond of death and destruction. . . .
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Excellent, now I can just wear a braclet or elegent neclace instead of walking around with the shrunken heads of my enemies tied on a string.
One can't fault the convenience factor, but
I don't know, I don't think it will have quite the same, er, impact.
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wrapped around a woman's finger even after death? The trend continues.
I had a similar idea back in high school after reading about how petroleum is made in nature. Immediately I struck upon the idea of processing human remains into gasoline or other petro-related products, and presented the idea to my science teacher. She was scandalized. "Why would I want to put grandma in my gas tank?!?!" That ended the discussion, but not the idea. This is recycling at its finest.
Wake up idiots! Soylent diamonds are PEOPLE!
Talk about the family jewels.
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You forgot about the third kind of blue diamonds, found in Lucky Charms cereal.
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