Heh, 14-karat dead people :p

Very very small dead people...

"Oh s*** oh s*** oh s***!"

"What is it honey?"

"I lost grandma!"

How amusingly barbaric, yet clever. I wounder how much I would sell for as a ring...

Hardly barbaric...how is it more barbaric then scattering ashes in the sea? It's not like they are making gems out of it to hock at the pawn shop...its a memorial type thing.

*places a head of a person on a spike, carrying it into town.*

You make a point, but I have sources.

Too bad I already switched to capital one

They'll never turn ME into a diamond....

because I'm silicon-based! Mwuahahah...

lmfao

Well to be honest, most traditions can be seen as barbaric if they're not the norm. What if we always turned people into bling? What would we think of people who buried stiffs in the ground?

Cremation was considered an unbelievable sin in the early sumarian days, all the way up to King David (of the Arabic nations), and was considered if you burned the body, their spirit will be damned.

It is now a common practice today.

Romans prefered cremation.

Dismemberment of the body was horrible to the ancient celtic-druidaic religions. Seperating the head from the body was separting the soul from the underworld.

Suprisingly, the orgins of this philopsphy in England, has evolved towards that some Nobles prefered to be beheaded rather than hung.

Some Amazon tribes consider burrial of their people horrible. They prefer to cannibalize them, to make part of their spirit one with them, and to not have the worms and maggots apart of them.

Now because of western influence, they are reluctantly placing their dead corpses under ground.

BORRRING

GUILLOTINE!

I've actually been planning on having this done since I first heard about it a couple of years ago, especially since the company that does it is just about two hours away from where I live. As soon as I get to the point where I actually have some sort of will drawn up, I will make sure that this is stated in it as my wishes.

<3

Haha

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Argh. I motion that the word "experience" be banned for the next decade. That'll learn 'em. Also the word "media" unless it pertains to news organizations.

Personally I find it kinda creepy, but hey whatever floats your boat. I wonder if people do it for dead pets as well, that's slightly less creepy to me.

Soylent Gem is made out of people...

I see gems of famous celebrities on ebay in the not so distant future.

Well, at least its better than half-eaten toast or someone's preserved snot.

IDEA! In order to pay for costs and debt, the government turns executed prisoners into valuable diamonds!

Interesting idea you have there/

I don't think they are that valuable in the end... Making them must cost more than they are really worth.

I guess.

Well, the people who are pro-execution will still watch criminal die. And those who are anti-execution will get shiny new rings and forget their agenda. Everyone wins!

Who's gonna pay for it? Not me.

An Athlon X2 4800+ it is then. :em321:

Thats just ****ing disgusting. Holy ****.

Ok, so warning crude joke :

I'll buy a dead Pamela Anderson cock ring please.

I totally want that done to me.

...what?

and
"In the field of death care, when someone says I'm really excited about this, I think we've achieved what we wanted to do which is change the culture of death." LOL!

also, my sister's response to the article (over IM):
"that would be sweet then your wife could wear u"

I can see it now.

"I lost my dead husband down the drain."

Up to 20 grand? Oh man, I'm going to become a hitman.
I'll kill the person for whatever price is on their head, then turn them into a pretty diamond and sell it.

You would pay if it was DJ Yoshi.

I would be a godd@mn emerald... screw the diamonds. Of course diamonds are made of carbon and emeralds aren't, so...