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Following on from the cremation or burial thread, whats your views on this site
http://www.lifegem-uk.com/
They take your ashes of your loved one, including pets and turn them in to a diamond.
Takes a few months to do, they look nice, but are expensive, but what price do you put something like this ?
Me, i think it is a lovely idea, having my partner with me always, sparkling and twinkling in the light !
others may have different views.................
aye my wife is a diamond so thats wat she will be when she,s gone. Me i guess i.ll be turned into a lump o coal .
[lol] [lol]
i was thinking about getting my ashes put into an hourglass.
it's something different!!
Sounds like a con to me.
I didn't think you could make diamonds. If you could they wouldn't be worth much and they wouldn't be a precious stone.
mmm. Home grown diamonds. Whatever next!!
Wonder how big a diamond you could make from a coo? Might be worth doing for £2k.
No con, its for real, using extreme heat and pressure.
I think I'll stick with the old-fashioned locket :roll:
j4bberw0ck
20-Apr-07, 21:58
Yup, I'm with Angela. Photos, and a few keepsakes. There's something so tacky about the "diamond" thing it's almost an insult.
How do you know your diamond has your loved ones 'carbon' in it, prices start from over £2000 for the smallest of stones .20 - .29 carat - tiny! :eek: all sounds a bit dodgy to me.
I didn't think you could make diamonds. If you could they wouldn't be worth much and they wouldn't be a precious stone.
They've been making "artificial" diamonds for years for use in industry such as mining. These are tiny though and not suitable for jewellery. However a few years a couple of techniques were developed to create larger examples suitable for cutting into gems. There was a documentary about it a few years ago and the diamond industry were getting quite concerned.
Interesting article about it:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html
Lolabelle
21-Apr-07, 13:31
I would look into it if and when the time comes. I like the idea of having Dave with me always.
my kids i know love me loads and they have already told me they are going to make me into a diamond, so it looks like i am gonna be a jewel once in my life.........
Jeemag_USA
21-Apr-07, 16:28
my kids i know love me loads and they have already told me they are going to make me into a diamond, so it looks like i am gonna be a jewel once in my life.........
Just tell them to be careful where to put it, I knew someone who swallowed a diamond, took them three days to pass it :Razz
I can think of a few other things I'd like my ashes made in to.
They are not the nicest of colours'
a bit on the yellow side!:(
We're only human!
Mister Squiggle
21-Apr-07, 21:12
Sorry, but I looked at the website and just thought it was all a bit creepy. Imagine admiring someone's new diamond ring, only to be told "Oh yes, that's Bert, hasn't he come up well!"
It's a tad reminiscent of those cat owners who get their pets stuffed and have them placed in familiar spots around the house. One lady I saw on a documentary had about 5 of them dotted around her house, their little beady glass eyes staring ... it was mawkish and weird.
No doubt that's the kind of market this mob are aiming at. I think the tag line "Never Be Apart Again" smacks of obsessive stalking. And anyway, what if you forget and end up pawning the gem in a moment of poverty? You can hardly pop back to the pawnbrokers and say "Oh, can I have my husband back? He's over in that display case ..."
Does that make me worth more dead than alive ????
Jeemag_USA
21-Apr-07, 21:26
Can you imagine is someone bought the diamond from a pawn shop and mounted it on a ring and someone had it pierced onto their private parts [lol]
I think I would rather just be scattered off the top of Holborn Head, thats the instructions i have already given my family, I want to swim with the fishies!
i believe that one of my daughters wants to have her tooth pierced with me....Nice to know that i am so loved.....
I have been watching the oddly enough news and i know that a gentleman in germany tried to have his father turned into a diamond, and the family said no, so he took it to court and lost the case...i am not sure if it is legal or not...can anyone enlighten me on this point.. I would not like to think of my kids doing something illegal.....
They've been making artifical diamonds for years - I believe its called Zirconium.
The process its self is legal. providing you leave instructions to your family that this is your request then there should not be a problem, unless some one contests the will !!
I think it is a good idea as well. Funerals are expensive so why not go that extra step?
scotty_mags
25-Apr-07, 11:21
Our 2 daughter's have already decided that my hubby & me are both being made in diamonds, one each, only question is who gets dad as he is a mighty big chap..........
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