05-18-2005, 06:24 AM
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Diamonds Are Forever
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05-18-2005, 06:27 AM
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Location: London
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There's an advert here in the UK (can't remember what for) when a brother of what appears to be a gangster has his body cremated and turned into a diamond, before pawning it at a dodgy LA corner pawnshop and it ending up at the end on an apparently beautiful womans tooth.
What I never understood is surely the process is hideously expensive, and surely the diamond wouldn't be worth much in comparasion. Ah well, it was nice to watch first time round before the brain cells kicked in.
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05-18-2005, 08:35 AM
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Bad Influence
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Created diamonds like the ones pictured on LifeGem's website are good enough to have DeBeers putting serial numbers on all of their real diamonds.
The nicotine(yellow-orange)-colored ones at the top of the page are so colored because of a high nitrogen content in the base carbon material. Ways have been found to attach all this free nitrogen and precipitate it out by adding base metals (tin or zinc, I think) to the carbon, but that makes the process more expensive and sometimes leaves inclusions in the finished stones. Personally, I'd rather be a yellow diamond around somebody's neck than worm food in the family cemetary, but my family is rather conservative and traditional so this is unlikely to happen. ScottMate
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05-18-2005, 09:52 AM
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Citizen of Bizarro World
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I'm gonna propose with a ring that has my dead great-grandmother on it.
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05-18-2005, 01:01 PM
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A Servicable Villain
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Last year I made a documentary about burials on school. We bumped into the Dutch Lifegem division and arranged a meeting. The interview was pretty interesting. Apparantly, the guy who set it up in the Netherlands lost his own son and, while looking for an appropriate way to bury him stumbled upon these diamonds. He thought our country should have such a service as well.
I think it's great that people get more choice in how they want to depart. Btw, they only use a small portion of the ashes to create the diamond. There's a limit to how big you can make one of those before they get imprefections or crack.
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