I copied/pasted the following ad. I think it's rather morbid.

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How about that?

You can have a diamond made out of the ashes of your family members or pets.

Answer 1

gives rise to the phrase:

Diamond in the Rough.

or

Diamonds Are Forever.

Answer 2

Ugh I find that really disgusting like in a creepy obsessive way.

Can't people just let them go? To me putting someones ashes in stone would be like messing with the natural processes of life.

Answer 3

Now I know what to do with my husband if he dies before me.

CREEPY

Answer 4

I don't think there is anything wrong with it. people on here are saying things like " can't you just let them go?". well of course you can't. you never ever ever get over loosing someone very close to you. and besides after you die your body is no longer part of your life/death cycle, so doing anything to the body does nothing to interrupt that cycle. as far as I am concerned if there is no specifics left by the deceased then the family should do whatever will bring them the most comfort. and if having a small gem of your mother/father/son/daughter/whatever makes you feel better then you should do it.

and by the way, to all the people saying we should go back to burying people in holes and go back to the earth, we are running out of room to bury our dead, especially since the coffins we have used for centuries are not biodegradable, and only some cultures started out burying their dead, most used to burn them. many many cultures believed that that was the only way to release the spirit properly. and do you really want all those junk food filled bodies going into our soil??  

Answer 5

That is strange and unnatural - I don't really find it morbid, but I do wish we could go back to just dumping people in a hole and returning to the earth like we were meant to do.  (circle of life, etc.)

Answer 6

My mother-in-law and her siblings had the rose petals from their mother's casket spray made into rosary beads. They all wear them around.

Answer 7

nothing wrong with that..people used to carry their loved ones hair in lockets after the motician cut it off for them to braid and whatever

Answer 8

Yea, this has been around for a couple of years now. I work at a jewelry store and we actually offer this service. Gross, huh?

Answer 9

Is that even actually possible?

I know diamonds are made out of carbon but I thought it required lots of heat and pressure.

Do you know how much this costs?

And even if this is possible is this a cost effect way of producing diamonds, how would you know that they hadn't just dug one up?

Answer 10

Industrially-grown diamonds take only a few weeks to grow, and they require heat and pressure inside of a chamber. While far inferior to natural diamonds, industrial diamonds are still quite pretty to behold and are of enough hardness to be useful as the coatings on drill bits, etc.

What's unsettling is that people have such an unhealthy attitude about death. It's a natural end to life, it happens to us all, and there's nothing we can really do about it.

I don't consider it morbid at all. I consider it a much better option than "soup" (as another answerer put it) or just plain old ashes... ashes that might be mingled with the Parmesan cheese in fine Italian restaurants, for all we know.

How's that for morbid?

Answer 11

Yeah, it's a little morbid.  Death, not the diamond!  But think about it, . . now there's a much nicer way to last than becoming soup!

Answer 12

If that is not illegal, it should be.  I always thought that there were laws against tampering with human remains.  That goes beyond morbid.  That is totally depraved.

Answer 13

I agree that is morbid.  

Answer 14

Amazing!