making dead bodies into diamonds?

Question

someone told me that now, when someone dies, instead of the gross burying procedure, you can make dead bodies into diamonds. fact or fiction? if fact, i will need info. and just to let u kno, i really didnt know wt categorie to put this in, so dont get pissed lolz)

i think it sounds like a really sweet idea, and is worth the price. who wants an expensive ugly coffin anyway,when your just going to rot in it 6 ft underground.

Answer 1

yes, it's true...

CHICAGO -- Widows like Anna Nicole Smith can prove their love truly was "solid as a rock" when their rich geezer hubbies croak -- by having the old buzzard's corpse turned into a beautiful diamond ring!

A company has developed an innovative process for turning cremated human remains into gorgeous diamonds that can be worn as jewelry.

A thimbleful of ash can be made into a dazzling diamond worth $4,000 and "of the same quality as those you would find at Tiffany's," according to Gregg Herro, head of LifeGem Memorials, which has begun marketing the eye-catching blue, red and yellow diamonds.

For $22,000, you can have a larger one-carat diamond made -- a perfect engagement ring for the groom who thinks his dead mom was a real gem.

"We're building on the simple fact that all living creatures are carbon-based and diamonds are carbon-based," Herro explained in an interview.

The crafty entrepreneur spent three years refining the process and successfully created the first human-remains diamond in July.

The ash is purified in a special furnace at 5,400 degrees Fahrenheit. It's then crushed under intense pressure and heat, replicating the forces that form the precious stones in nature. The process takes about four months.

Man-made diamonds have been around since the 1950s, but this is the first time that carbon from a human being has been made into a diamond, company spokesman Mark Bouffard told Weekly World News.

The diamonds have been certified by the prestigious European Gemological Laboratory, he said.

Several funeral homes, such as Ahlgrim and Sons in Zurich, Ill., already are offering the service.

"We've had many requests for information about LifeGems from people who say 'I'd love to do this for my mother, or for my sister,' " funeral director Doug Ahlgrim said. "People have also been asking about using the service for their pets. I believe this product is going to take off."

Answer 2

I can't believe how ignorant the people are on here calling you a TROLL. They're the trolls. I hate ignorance and stupidity Yes, you can make diamonds out of dead organisms, but this process produces a more expensive , yet smaller diamond than a mined diamond

Answer 3

It's true. But the size of the diamond is very small. You won't exactly get rich selling them.
Our bodies contain carbon which is what makes up a diamond.
I heard an interview with the guy from Ahlgrim and Sons Funeral Services on the radio and yes, they claim they can do this. The source here is not the most reliable but like I said, I heard the funeral director said they can do it!

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/technology/47842

Have a great day!!

Answer 4

Ya diamond's are made of carbon, similar to carbon in bodies.
But making diamond's out of dead bodies is completely other thing. I think it's possible by subjecting the body to high pressure and temperature, but not completely possible as even crude oil forms by this process. So, it's better to buy some diamonds instead of preparing them by this costly procedure.

Answer 5

That came up in an article on the 'net somewhere awhile ago.

I tend to find that things like that are /not true/. Anyway, why would you want to wear a dead person?

A few more questions: Does wearing a dead person (ring, earrings, necklace, whatever) actually appeal to anybody? Wouldn't it be extremly easy to /lose/ the diamond made of your loved one? And is LifeGem the only company that does this? If it is, then that's a pretty good chance that it's actually a scam. Especially since you're paying upwards of $1,000.

Answer 6

I think it is fact. What they do (the mortician or whoever), burns the body until it becomes ash, then through a chemical process, they compress the ashes (carbon, since diamond is highly compressed carbon) until is becomes a diamond. According to me, wearing a diamond on my finger of a dead body, burnt to ash and compressed into diamond is the same as touching a dead body, without touching the skin... gross.

Answer 7

Yes. We've actually stopped mining diamonds all together with now. Also, Zales has purchased roughly 75% of the crematoriums in the U.S. to use the bodies for diamond production. That's why the price for diamonds has come down so dramatically.

Answer 8

WOW -
A nifty, new, innovative, consumer 'toy'!!!

Not very eco friendly, I imagine, what with the energy needed to convert dead human tissue to - final resting result - diamond.

And what will the religious zealots call this 'end result'?

Deamonds?

And will these newly formed 'deamonds' reassemble in human form, at the final Resurrection?

Nahhh - too much confusion, and having to change the rules and belief systems. . .
better to just -burn/bury the dead . . .
wouldn't want floating deamonds roving old homes and neighborhoods - ghosts might feel threatened, and crowded, and think of the problems that might create . . . better go now - imagination is running rampant. . .

Corpse Gems --- what'll they think of next?

Answer 9

As far as I'm aware it's possible.

Diamonds are a form of carbon. YOu can make diamonds from carbon by exerting a serious amount of pressure on it. Although it's not easy, or cheap and what you're left with isn't as valuable as a naturally formed diamond.

When you cremate a body you're left with...carbon.

Answer 10

that is complete fact!

A thimbleful of ash can be made into a dazzling diamond worth $4,000 and "of the same quality as those you would find at Tiffany's," according to Gregg Herro, head of LifeGem Memorials, which has begun marketing the eye-catching blue, red and yellow diamonds.

lifegem memorials is the company

below is a link to an article about it.