Spiritually speaking, is this a rather macbre way of remembering a loved one who has passed?

Question

As we are all carbon based - someone has come up with a way of preserving a part of a loved one for jewerly!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080829/n_odds_reuters/odd_diamonds_dc

Diamonds are forever???

Answer 1

Don't question the way people deal with their grief...you'll have some eventually, let us know how it goes for you...

Answer 2

That is really disgusting.  

Answer 3

A lil bit, I prefer to be shot into space. Nah, I am all for organ donation actually.

Answer 4

ROFL @ Meds!!   Jingles, I wouldn't want to sport the remains of a loved one as a piece of jewelry.  Shudder!!  As we say in the south, "Well Lordy be, things in this old world seem to be getting stranger and stranger".   :)

Answer 5

Meds: Will you marry me?

Jingles: of course you handsome devil.

Meds: Here's a ring, it was Grandma.

Jingles: It was your Grandmother's? How sweet!

Meds: No... It WAS Grandma...

Gee, what's the problem???

Answer 6

I don't think so. I think I'd like what's left of me after my organs are harvested to be mixed up with what's left of my wife after her organs are harvested and passed down my family.

Answer 7

Probably no more macabre than the fact that I have some of my mother's ashes. No, I don't wear them, but I have them. Some may think that's macabre.

Answer 8

I think it's pretty cool, actually. It certainly beats an urn full of ashes, or sitting around staring at a corpse for half a day.  

Answer 9

I don't know - it's a matter of opinion I guess. I have my dads ashes sitting out in my house. And when we brought them home from the funeral parlor we did open them up and looked at them, even touched them. That would be really creepy to some people but we did it. I don't know that having a piece of jewelry made out of the ashes is really any creepier. It sounds kind of like something I might do, but I have to fully admit that I am sort of macabre. :)  

Answer 10

I don't think so..

I heard about this several years ago...

I even looked into it...I think for some people this would be a good idea...all of us have different ways of coping & moving on with a loved ones death...

The diamonds also come in colors & it takes about 8 months for the diamond to be created...

Answer 11

Couldn't you just kill a bunch of cats, and sell the diamonds for more than you paid for them?