Wear your deceased loved one as jewelry
 

I heard about LifeGem on the radio the other day. This is a company that takes the ashes of your loved one and makes a diamond out of it.

They range in price from $2,700 to $25,000 (for the diamond only) and are available in a clear, blue, green, yellow or red colors.

This just struck me as odd.

My kids and I joked about doing that-

Rose is wearing the ring- someone says "nice ring"- Rose says "thanks, it's my mom"- they repond "oh, it's your mothers?" - and Rose says ""no, it's my MOM"

:p

The victorians were all into death jewelry. A lock of hair in a locket or actual photos of the loved one in their coffins. So I guess it's not that odd.

Or having your picture taken with the recently and dearly departed. That said, I still think it's rather odd. I saw something on television some time back and thought, whatever, but not for me.

It doesn't strike me as any odder than putting them in a felt lined box, burying them and putting a plaque above it.

I personally wouldn't do either the jewelry or the burial.

Lani has instructions to do whatever makes her feel best but that it is fine with me, should nobody show interest in a use for my body, to just leave me out in the street for consumption by wild bears (likely to take quite a while, though, in the Bay Area suburbs; I wonder if turkeys scavenge carrion).

I've told Heather that if I go first, I want her to cremate me and stick me in a Sea Urn (a biodegradable container that dissolves in water). When the time is right, I want her to take the money she might have spent on a funeral and hire a fireworks cruise boat at WDW for all of my friends who care to go. When everyone is ooh-ing and ah-ing over the fireworks display, she'll discreetly drop the urn into the water.

That's pretty cool, but in the Rivers of America, they'd never notice.....

Im really 50/50 on the gem thing. then again Im not huge on ashes sitting around in my safe awaiting disposition either. not to mention I so dont see myself as a diamond kinda guy. :D
kinda falls into that 'creepy but morbidly interesting' niche that I so love.

I like the sea urn idea alot better though. Gonna have to check into that for sure.

I'm just going to wait until I have a whole crop of various ashes and make one giant bling.