[subego]

Happened across an ad for The LifeGem® which is a "certified, high-quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one".

Uhh... ahh...

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahahahahaha....I need a link!

greg

[subego]

www.lifegem.com

[Chongo]

www.lifegem.com
price list
http://www.lifegem.com/secondary/LGPrices2006.aspx
I saw this in a Phoenix New Times article several years ago. I had thought about doing this when one of my dogs died. I had him for over 16 years (from birth) and wanted to do something special, until I saw how much they wanted. I loved my dog, but not that much!
Phoenix - Arts & Entertainment - Family Jewels
The article said they have a slight blue tint to them

[lpkmckenna]

I think this is far more dignified than burial. I mean, I imagine your carcass will actually increase in value over time.

[Visnaut]

But if we're all made into diamonds, what carbon will be left to be crushed into fossil fuels for our future generations??

Seriously though, I personally don't care what happens to my sorry ass after I'm gone. Harvest whatever organs that are of any use to others, and put the rest out on garbage day. There, no exorbitant funeral charges for my next of kin.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Visnaut 

But if we're all made into diamonds, what carbon will be left to be crushed into fossil fuels for our future generations??

Seriously though, I personally don't care what happens to my sorry ass after I'm gone. Harvest whatever organs that are of any use to others, and put the rest out on garbage day. There, no exorbitant funeral charges for my next of kin.

I agree with that.

I’d probably feel a bit weird about running with jewellery made of dead people, though.

[subego]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

I agree with that.

I’d probably feel a bit weird about running with jewellery made of dead people, though.

That's what sort of got me. If I'm going to transform my loved one into something, I'm going to transform them into... body ornamentation?

Thirded on what they do with me after I'm dead, though I think it would be wrong to do something as wasteful as bury me.

The notion of opting for broil and then forcing my relatives to dump me somewhere with palm trees and salt water has always appealed though.

If I die in February, I'm doing them a favor.

[f1000]

It takes a whopping amount of energy to turn a person into a diamond. Besides, diamonds eventually degrade into graphite. To really reduce ones carbon footprint, one should get oneself turned into a juicy mansteak. Imagine how many fewer farting livestock the world would need if our children simply ate us with some fava beans after we passed away.

Soylent Green is people!

[Buckaroo]

This is just a way for a company to pump up the price of their Cubic Zirconium process.

Just wait 20 years until the patent expires and the price will come down. They only take a small portion of the ashes. It's not like they compress all the ashes.

[subego]

Originally Posted by f1000 

It takes a whopping amount of energy to turn a person into a diamond. Besides, diamonds eventually degrade into graphite. To really reduce ones carbon footprint, one should get oneself turned into a juicy mansteak. Imagine how many fewer farting livestock the world would need if our children simply ate us with some fava beans after we passed away.

Soylent Green is people!

We gotta eat all the old people
Show em that you love em
We gotta eat all the old people
Shove em in the oven
We gotta eat all the old people
Stick em in the freezer
We gotta eat all the old people
We're gonna garnish up a geezer

We're gonna hack em, whack, de-bone and stack em
Two by two on the bar-b-q rack em
We're talking Steve McQueen with the Soylent Green
We grinding up the grannies in the granny-grind machine

[Kerrigan]

I'm there are a lot of weird-beard liberals here who would love to wear jewelery made from dead people.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan 

I'm there are a lot of weird-beard liberals here who would love to wear jewelery made from dead people.

Originally Posted by Chongo 

I saw this in a Phoenix New Times article several years ago. I had thought about doing this when one of my dogs died. I had him for over 16 years (from birth) and wanted to do something special, until I saw how much they wanted. I loved my dog, but not that much!

First up: Chongo, "weird-beard" liberal extraordinaire....

greg

[Kerrigan]

I know, what a liberal!

[ghporter]

I'm gonna get harvested for anything that still works and would be useful for someone else, then I'm gonna be cremated. My wife has been saying for quite some time that she's going to get a pendant made out of me by LifeGem. Maybe she'll send some of me into space too. I gotta get more insurance to pay for all of this!

[Kerrigan]

Why don't you spend all of that money feeding the poor? Or better yet, spend it on a Mac mini server farm.

[ghporter]

Because I have already been contributing to charities like The Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, the Lymphoma and Lukemia society, the Nature Conservancy... Charities will hopefully have mixed emotions when I finally kick the bucket.

Try doing that sort of philanthropy on the salaries I've had over the years (23 years as an enlisted Airman), and you'll see that I'm not at all being selfish about this.