I have written about many different ways of memorializing one’s
life. Many people have unique ideas about appropriate tombstones, cremations,
storage of remains and other ways of honoring deceased loved ones. Now an Illinois
company has announced a memorial unlike anything else I have ever heard of:
LifeGems offers to turn the remains of a loved one into precious stones.
High-quality man-made diamonds have been available for some time.
Placing carbon, the primary element of all diamonds, in conditions that recreate
the forces of earth, creates the diamonds.
Until recently, a chemical process was used to create the carbon.
Now LifeGems has discovered how to capture the carbon that was always present
and, until now, lost during cremation. Once captured, this carbon is placed
into a diamond press that replicates the forces of nature – heat and pressure.
A diamond that takes millions of years to occur naturally can now be created
from the carbon of your loved one in a matter of weeks.
The result is a LifeGem, a high quality diamond created from the
carbon of your loved one. The diamonds produced may be kept loose or set in
a ring or other jewelry of your choice. The LifeGem is a unique memorial to
the deceased person’s life.
You can learn more about LifeGems at: www.lifegem.com
My thanks to Daniel J. Kortenkamp for telling me about LifeGems.
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