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Making diamonds from cremated remains
Stones from bones
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILLINOIS
For $4.000 you can now wear a loved ones on your finger
The next time someone tells you that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, they may not be speaking metaphorically. Those sparkling gems may really be her best friend, or her husband, or even her dog. Life Gem, a small company based near Chicago, has started offering diamonds made from the cremated remains of people and pets. Funeral homes ∈Illinois, Wisconsin and New York have signed up to market the service to their clients, who can literally have loved ones wrapped around their fingers for eternity.
Life Gem estimates that the carbon from one cremated human body can yield up to 50 stones of varying sizes. With prices starting at $4000 for a quarter-carat, though, it will not be cheap to add Uncle Harold to the family’s jewellery collection.
Although the idea may sound weird, the company insists that is technically feasible. According the Life Gem executives, an American-owned diamond laboratory ∈Germany spent three years developing the process of extracting carbon from animal and human bone; turning it into precious stones ∈ the easy bit. The lab’s anonymous owner will report edly produce stones for Life Gem until the company builds its own facility ∈America.
It may be on to something. A growing number of Americans - about a quarter of those who died last year - are cremated. Life Gem says it is also looking to Japan, where the vast majority of people are cremated, and to the pet market for more opportunities. And if these new markets do not suffice? It could always start competing head to head with Atlanta-based Eternal Reefs, which mixes ashes with concrete and uses the blocks - a “permanent environmental tribute to life” - as coastal reef formations.
Disponível em: http://www.drabruzzi.com/interestingnewsstories.htm. Acesso em: 09/05/2015.
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