Hey Kenny, I found you an affordable red diamond!

[MonkeyPie]

http://www.lifegem.com/secondary/LGPrices2006.aspx...just cremate your doggies someday.

(FYI: I'm just kidding, PLEASE do not even think about when your doggies will die! That makes ME sad.)

Gah. This sort of makes me feel icky.

 

[Tuckins1]

Yeah, I have seen this before.... I think it's kind of a creepy idea. I understand why someone might do it, but creepy none the less.

 

[kenny]

Ugh.

 

[RockHugger]

Dude that's creepy. Just think...that diamond purchased on eBay could be someones remains.....

 

[Liane]

I would totally do that if I thought it was legit, but according to some old threads I ran across a while ago, all those cremation diamond companies are actually a scam. Something about the carbon burning instead of being incorporated into a diamond because the temperatures are too high. You can probably find the threads (and the actual information instead of my inaccurate recollection) if you're interested in looking; I just remember the takeaway point being that there's nothing left of the body in the stone.

 

[Circe]

I would totally do that if I thought it was legit, but according to some old threads I ran across a while ago, all those cremation diamond companies are actually a scam. Something about the carbon burning instead of being incorporated into a diamond because the temperatures are too high. You can probably find the threads (and the actual information instead of my inaccurate recollection) if you're interested in looking; I just remember the takeaway point being that there's nothing left of the body in the stone.

Ditto this - I actually rather like the concept, but as the reality is a scam, alas, when I die, I will have to settle for convincing some family member to line my skull in gold, set the sockets with rubies, and perch me on a shelf with a good vantage point.

 

[MonkeyPie]

I would totally do that if I thought it was legit, but according to some old threads I ran across a while ago, all those cremation diamond companies are actually a scam. Something about the carbon burning instead of being incorporated into a diamond because the temperatures are too high. You can probably find the threads (and the actual information instead of my inaccurate recollection) if you're interested in looking; I just remember the takeaway point being that there's nothing left of the body in the stone.

Ditto this - I actually rather like the concept, but as the reality is a scam, alas, when I die, I will have to settle for convincing some family member to line my skull in gold, set the sockets with rubies, and perch me on a shelf with a good vantage point.

AWESOME!

 

[redfaerythinker]

Circe~ Something like this? It has over 17,000 round brilliants and resides in the Diamond Museum in Amsterdam. It's AMAZING, if not exceedingly strange.

 

[Laughinggravy0]

Should they not also be putting a lightbulb in your skull too? Then you could be useful and creepy? Great idea, and make them drink a toast to you every third Wednesday in the month. Actually, I think I'm going to steal the idea.....

 

[Imdanny]

I bet they don't even use the real dead person/ animal. I don't trust them at all.

 

[LGK]

Yeah, I seem to remember there was one thread in particular on Lifegem that pretty much definitively proved they were lying liars. Which is just doubly icky when you think about how they are taking advantage of grieving people. Ugh.

In terms of awesomely creepy stuff to do with one's remains. One of my co-workers loves vintage costume jewelry, which her daughter slavers over. So she has declared she wants to have all her antique costume jewelry glued to her cremation urn, mostly to irritate her daughter. So for her birthday we made her a rhinestone encrusted urn. Because we're all disturbing like that. She totally loved it, which was even funnier.

 

[charbie]

my mom said she will be leaving money for her body to be cremated and for us to wear her around all the time. yup, i'm kinda creeped.