Hello again,
I have found something very interesting, that I think is truly amazing. It turns out that with the technology we have today, we can turn ashes into diamonds. While poking around on the internet about unusual or unique funerary practices, I stumbled upon a site that will actually take a portion of cremated remains and turn them into a diamond. The amazing part is it actually looks like real diamond! They come in colour too! The process does take weeks to complete and depending on what you want in the diamond it can get very pricey quick, though the site likes to enforce that this will be a cherished object of memory for generations to come. It makes me think about how we actually remember a person, I mean sure this diamond will be of great importance to the person who is having it made for them however I don't know if it would be something that future generations would want to keep. In fact it could be that when someone inherits this diamond they could sell it off.
One way to look at it is that the cremated person now has become an object of wealth and could become a funerary object that someone is buried with. If someone had the money too, I'm sure that they could use all the ashes of the cremated person and sell the diamonds. It is a very different perspective on what the human body can become. Rather than becoming putrefied remains the body can become a shiny valuable object that in North America is a sign of wealth and eternity- "Diamonds are Forever".
here is the link to the website:
http://www.cremationsolutions.com/Cremation-Diamonds-Made-From-Ashes-c39.html
