I reported to you last week that the inventor of the Frisbee wanted his cremated remains added to Frisbees that would be distributed to family and friends and sold to help fund a future museum. Well, in a somewhat more bizarre twist to this theme, the Chicago company LifeGem Memorials has developed a way to “turn cremated human remains into diamonds that can be worn as jewelry.” Prices for a 0.25 carat diamond start at $4,000, and a full karat would cost $22,000. For those of you who haven’t had to shop for diamonds recently (as I have), that’s a damn expensive diamond! But then again, you can’t put a price on wearing your dead family member’s remains. OK, maybe that’s a little insensitive, but I just think that this whole thing is way too morbid.
