Gross!

It's different Cas, not too sure about odd. I know people who carry around some of the ashes of loved ones in a small vial on a chain around their neck.

Well, bow imagine putting them in a large furnace and making a diamond out of them, then eating the diamond so they can be part of you forever.

Or at least the six hours or so it took for the diamond to move through your system.

Making things out of dead loved ones seems just a little off to me.

Why make a diamond when you can make a doorbell answerer? Everytime someone rings your doorbell, it'll trigger a system set up to make your loved one's body go flying right into the visitor with their arms out in a mock-hug!

Much better to me...

On the one hand, I think it sounds really cool. On the other hand, I really hope it doesn't catch on, or that the technology behind making it possible ever gets to the point where it can be cheap and widespread. I can just imagine criminal rings picking off targets and then processing them into diamonds. It's not as though things are bad enough in places like Cote d'Ivoire already.

For all the people freaking out, stop for a moment and think about all the other things we do with corpses and have done historically. This isn't really any more gross than mummification, autopsy, organ donation, embalming, or cremation. The potential unintended side markets this could create, however, seem pretty frightening.

You know what's weird? I don't think any of those things you mentioned, mummification, autopsy, organ donation, embalming or cremation are weird or gross at all. Heck, I'm signed up everywhere to be an organ donar when I die myself.

But turnin a loved one into a diamond? Crazy.

Umm. if this is real, then the technology allready exists to make fake diamonds, and to cremate people. You don' need this company, nor would it make a secandary market.

I found the whole thing rather unplausible so I checked out snopes

http://www.snopes.com/science/diamonds.asp

Well then, thank you for doing what the rest of us are too lazy to do.

Make sure you get your diamond tested at your local DNA lab when you get it in the mail! I wonder what the extra ingredients are to get the color varieties...

i actually would love this to happen to me >_>

Love

I like this then some other things we do. You are creating something with the body instead of just throwing it away.

It's people! The secret ingredient is people!

Lifegem has been doing it for a long time. They're not even at the forefront of it anymore. Also, the new preferred material is hair, because it has more carbon and is easier to process.

Anyways, it's still ridiculously expensive compared to mining diamonds.

And to Zarquan's question: the non-yellow diamonds are made in the absence of nitrogen.

The technology exists and is already quite common and widespread for creating scientific tools, like diamond-edged surgical knives, so that the scientific community doesn't have to pay for the outlandish prices of the diamond monopoly. I might add, though, that it's FAR easier to get the carbon from something like coal rather than people. People are just a special case application of the diamond fabrication process.


Blame the "natural" diamond companies. Diamonds are really freaking common, as in so common you can walk down certain stream beds and just pick them up off the ground. But of course you'd get shot and be dead if you did.

But yes, there -is- a downside to the synthetic process: The diamonds can never be as large as the Hope Diamond. Oh well.


Quasi-ninja'd by Xavius, the jerk.

Not "yet".

Reminds me of this site, which is a personal favourite.

Anyone know Bone Song and Dark Blood by John Meaney? I've tried imagining our world like that... and you know, it doesn't seem that impossible anymore. Scary.

PS: The LifeGem stuff reminded me of it, because they do crazy things with their dead too. I can only recommend the books though.