with apologies to harold arlen...
i've got the world on a string
i'm sitting on a rainbow
got my son in a ring on my finger....
yes, thanks to the criminally insane people at lifegem, i could have the carbon extracted from hans's ashes and placed in one of their presses for 24 weeks and then voila! my little gem becomes an actual diamond. for as little as $2,699 he can be a yellow diamond; prices to turn him into a blue diamond start at $3,499. to get a full carat out of him costs a cool $20 grand, but you'll be happy to know there are volume discounts, as well as a 20% discount if you pre-plan and pre-purchase.
ew, ew, ew, ew, ew.
i'm not sure why i'm so uncomfortable with this process. i'm sure plenty of people are creeped out by my son's ashes sitting on the built-in sound system shelves in our living room. maybe it's the oily slickness of the company's presentation that makes it seem so icky.
am i the only one creeped out by this diamond business? do i need to schedule a new appointment with my therapist? or is this thing as icky as i think it is?
i'm sitting on a rainbow
got my son in a ring on my finger....
yes, thanks to the criminally insane people at lifegem, i could have the carbon extracted from hans's ashes and placed in one of their presses for 24 weeks and then voila! my little gem becomes an actual diamond. for as little as $2,699 he can be a yellow diamond; prices to turn him into a blue diamond start at $3,499. to get a full carat out of him costs a cool $20 grand, but you'll be happy to know there are volume discounts, as well as a 20% discount if you pre-plan and pre-purchase.
ew, ew, ew, ew, ew.
i'm not sure why i'm so uncomfortable with this process. i'm sure plenty of people are creeped out by my son's ashes sitting on the built-in sound system shelves in our living room. maybe it's the oily slickness of the company's presentation that makes it seem so icky.
am i the only one creeped out by this diamond business? do i need to schedule a new appointment with my therapist? or is this thing as icky as i think it is?
posted by laura at 8:40 PM
11 Comments:
I think that in theory there's something very lovely about this...sort of...but in reality it is actually very creepy and kind of ewwwwws me out. I don't know. I don't think I could do it.
i used to work with a woman who had a mason's ring with a little flip-top (like a locket) with some of her husband's ashes in it. i thought that was a little odd. but pressing the carbon into a stone is downright weird, to me.
"My husband had to die in order for me to finally get a diamond ring out of him."
hahaha hehehe hahaha
you can also have your poodle made into a diamond. presumably, you would choose the princess cut.
The entire diamond cartel disgusts me, but I'm sure that this isn't all that surprising to anyone who knows me at all ... that said, i don't really find it all that disturbing, in and of itself, to make something out of our dearly departed.
Not that I'd ever spend $20 grand doing so and the goobers who are marketing this for that sort of dough are shit enough for doing this.
I have heard of this before...I think it's way creepy.
While the idea in of itself is rather creepy, as Justin pointed out it's the way that it's marketed that is really offensive. There's a not-so-fine line between "helping you remember your loved one with tasteful personalized keepsakes" and "soaking you for all you're worth in your darkest hour of grief".
Definitely creepy.
I only saw the picture on Yahoo! News, and I thought it was kind of neat - but I didn't see how it was marketed, which definitely may be offensive. Isn't the whole death business pretty bad anyway? My mom would appreciate something like the diamond though - she loves diamonds and wants to be cremated anyway. And if someone were to say to me, while holding out a bejeweled finger, 'This is Harold,' I'd probably look at it long and hard and whip out a loupe to see if Harold's flawed.
I do have the ashes of my late parakeet Easter in a jeweled silver pillbox, but then some people think that's kind of weird. We buried my grandmother with the ashes of her german shepherd, and my mom wants to be buried with the ashes of her various dogs that have gone before her. Don't know about human ashes though; haven't been there.
The fundamental idea of having an heirloom a memory preserved forever appeals to me.
Regardless we will never have that kind of flow to do anything like this.
The marketing was creepy.
Ummm... I vote for a little freaky.
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