LifeGem has taken the industrial process of creating diamonds (invented by BYU professor H. Tracy Hall, now emeritus) and turned it into something truly strange.
They take the carbon from your loved one’s body and create a diamond out of it. Then you can wear it around the rest of your life and freak people out when you tell them what it is.
This just sounds like something a freaky Bond villain would do to his victims. If you are a recent widower, using your previous wife as fodder for the next engagement ring is not a good idea.
Can you imagine if you had this done and then you accidentaly flushed the ring down the toilet? Ooops - there goes Bob!
October 20th, 2005 at 8:03 pm
I’m stuck between sentimental and that being the absolutely bizarest thing ever.
October 21st, 2005 at 1:35 am
are they cheaper?
October 21st, 2005 at 1:41 am
They really shouldn’t be very expensive. I’m guessing that they don’t need to even use “all of the carbon” from someone. The first diamond that was made in the tetrahedral press was made with a small amount of peanut butter. (In a past life, I dated the granddaughter of the guy who invented the diamond press… so I learned a lot about it.)
I’m guessing they charge a lot for it. The guy who invented the press lives here in Provo… Maybe we could bring a dead dog to him and see what he could do with it. He’s quite old now, though, so he might not appreciate that.