We're not yet at the stage of technological development where we've achieved Star Trek replicators, pulling sub-atomic particles out of thin air to make tea, Earl Grey, hot, (or lubrication, anal, room temperature, if you prefer...it doesn't matter. Replicators are like honey badgers).
What we can do, however - and by "we" I mean "a company in Illinois called LifeGem" - is take a handful of your cremation ashes and rearrange the carbon into a diamond (presumably a piece of coal is an option too, but that would defy the point since someone would only set fire to it again). And look: they have T-shirts!
Listen, not everyone can have their ashes launched into space. But you could adorn somebody's ring forever, or even - LifeGem doesn't mention this, but why not? - cut through concrete on the highest-end chainsaws. That'd be a proud legacy.
But since you won't live to see it happen to you, how about immortalizing your pets? If your dog could talk, wouldn't he tell you he'd love to find a way to tear stuff to pieces for fun even after his time on earth is done?
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I want my ashes to be mixed with paint and a portrait of myself created. Then in 200 years an ancestor of mine will find the painting and I'll take over his life, Joseph Curwen style.
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I imagine this will be a converswation at some point:
"So he went to Jared's?"
"Yea, it was sooo romantic"
"....and Jared's a diamond as well?"
"....yes."
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Does it specify where the cremated ashes have to come from? Because I'm planning on either something made out of my dead enemies to show to hip-hop stars as true "hardcore bling", or to go for the Serpentor special & to use the ashes of history's greatest warriors to try & create a necklace of unimaginable power ("warriors" can be replaced with "rock stars" if needed). Either way, I am so going to find blood oozing from my walls!
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So if I have my body turned to diamonds and my mind put in a Robot body. I could wear my old body on my new one and look super fly....
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But if they got my diamonds messed up with the serial killer one. That would be my mind possed by the serial killer in my new robot body.. Yeah this is the next scifi movie with Dean Cain playing me casue you know he has to show up every now and then.
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Now if i can use the ashes to be woven into the fabric of their pretty awesome shirt...that would be amazing. Also i sense a movie is in this somehow, let's say a serial killer gets his ashes pressed into a diamond, then placed into a ring. Now whomever wears the ring is possessed by the killer. I'm off to Hollywood!
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gem quality? I know they can do industrial quality diamonds - they've been doing that for decades but gem quality? I am skeptical. Okay, I'm guessing (their site says diddly) their process uses some of the deceased and a lot of highly refined carbon material. I'm also guessing "some" comes out to a negligible amount. Still it makes sense to do this since the gem industry is snobby about manufactured diamonds and if you have the facility this is better than going bankrupt. I know that one of the first manufactured diamonds were made out of peanut butter but the amount of non carbon in the gem reduced them to industrial quality.
@Gallen_Dugall lab diamonds can be of gem quality.
the carbon doesn't care how it was arranged into a lattice
and they have no natural flaws
but since it is impurities and origin story that add value
lab gems are not raised in price by collectors who want their stones to have 'soul.'
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@Gallen_Dugall If you're making yourself or a pet into a gem, I'm guessing the idea is for it never to be resold.
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Never underestimate the celebrity crowd - I fully expect to see the widows of sports stars and actors to be cashing in on this in my lifetime
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@LYT @Gallen_Dugall I was going to pawn my wife and kids...now what will i do...
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@Canadian.Scott @LYT @Gallen_Dugall Here's a shovel. There's a graveyard. Get to it.
