Instead Of A Burial, Consider Becoming This Sparkly Alternative.
You have a lot of options as a dead person. Burial and
cremation are popular ones. You can opt for a "green" burial, where the
body is not embalmed and buried in a biodegradable container. You could
also have a "sky burial," where you're left out as a snack for
scavenging birds. (Really. This is a thing. Look it up.)
One Swiss company is taking a more glamorous approach to human remains. Talk about saving space!
Algordanza provides a service where the cremated remains of a
loved one convert into a diamond. The diamond can then be used in
jewelry or kept in a collection.
How is this done? First, the carbon is extracted from the cremated remains. The human body is about 18% carbon, and about 2% of that remains after the cremation process. This is the carbon Algodanza uses to make their diamonds, and filters out of the other materials via a chemical process. The carbon is heated and turned into graphite, the material found in pencils.
The graphite is heated to 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit and subjected
to as many as 870,000 pounds of pressure per square inch. The result of
this process, which mimics a process deep in the Earth, is a diamond
that ranges from white to dark blue in color. The color variation
depends on the amount of the element boron in the ashes. The diamond is
cut and polished, and many opt to have it set in a ring or another piece
of jewelry to keep their deceased loved ones close.
Turning someone's ashes into a diamond is not a cheap process, but
it's comparable with the cost of an average funeral. This process is
about $4,500 (USD), not counting the prior cremation. A burial can run
almost $10,000 in total.
The process is pretty fascinating on a scientific level, when you consider that what was once a human is now a beautiful gem. I still don't know how I'd feel about someone wearing my remains everywhere, but it sounds better than the alternatives.
Source: http://www.viralnova.com/memorial-diamonds/
One Swiss company is taking a more glamorous approach to human remains. Talk about saving space!
A cut and polished diamond. The blue color comes from the amount of boron present in the ashes.
How is this done? First, the carbon is extracted from the cremated remains. The human body is about 18% carbon, and about 2% of that remains after the cremation process. This is the carbon Algodanza uses to make their diamonds, and filters out of the other materials via a chemical process. The carbon is heated and turned into graphite, the material found in pencils.
These are the machines that exert pressure onto the graphite, mechanically transforming it into a diamond
A completed diamond.
The process is pretty fascinating on a scientific level, when you consider that what was once a human is now a beautiful gem. I still don't know how I'd feel about someone wearing my remains everywhere, but it sounds better than the alternatives.
Source: http://www.viralnova.com/memorial-diamonds/
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