BS: Humans are forever

Subject: Humans are forever
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 09:47 AM

Chicago based company Lifegem is taking orders to make jewellery from the carbon remains of people or pets. They collect the carbon created when a body is cremated, turn it into graphite then send it to a lab in Germany who put it under intense pressure to make diamonds.
Might help pay the funeral expenses

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 10:06 AM

In my job I hear many ideas from folks wanting to start a small busines & needing my organisation's help, but this is a new one. I'll pass it on to my colleagues.

In the 18th & 19th centuries there was a vogue for mourning jewellery using hair from deceased relatives, this is just the 21st century version. What next?

Sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: MMario
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 10:11 AM

ligegem.com

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 11:01 AM

This way you will always have a remnant of them with you--for a fee. But it's the brightest part!

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: Airto
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 11:40 AM

How wrong I was! I thought this might be a thread about humans, like pets, not being just for Christmas. Seems they are to become just that.

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 11:56 AM

always remember, a hanky is for life, not just for christmas! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: Amos
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 12:09 PM

The worship of molecules reaches a new high of farce! This religion is sooooo innerestin'!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 12:13 PM

'An urn on a shelf may be quite continental
But diamonds are a man's best end'

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: Genie
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 09:48 PM

I like the idea that the guy who 'perfected' the Frisbee had. His ashes are to be molded into Frisbees so he can fly above the earth even in death. May not be "forever," but what a neat idea while the Frisbees last!

Genie

PS
Besides, I guess you could re-mold the torn up, chewed up Frisbees quite a few times before all traces of the guy's ashes disappeared.

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: Blackcatter
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 12:50 AM

Genie - what happens if a dog suddenly takes a liking to the frisbee? A tug of war with a loved-one's remains is kind of a horrifying thought (or funny as all Hell!).

Also - I doubt the diamonds would have a great deal of monetary value. The ones I've seen also had a black sheen to them.

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: Blackcatter
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 12:54 AM

I'm no good at blue clicky things, but the above link is inconvienent. The cottect URL for cuttin' an' pastin' is:

http://www.lifegem.com/

pax yall

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 01:31 AM

Can they retreave MY DNA from the new diamond? So they can clone me 2000 years from now?

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: GUEST,chimaera
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 01:49 PM

Question is: would they want to?

:->

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: khandu
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 01:56 PM

Plans are in the working to use these bits of remains to, in the distant future, create a super-human, a compilation of many people into one being. Hence, gargoyle's DNA is vital to the effort. It will be used to create the super-man's anus.

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: khandu
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 01:57 PM

Damn, I been reading too much Mudcat postings. That last one sound like Spaw!

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: Genie
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 12:06 AM

Blackcatter, I think the Frisbee guy had that sort of 'fate' in mind when he asked that his ashes be molded into the flying disks. Why not give a pooch or two some good times after you're gone instead of just feeding worms or hanging around some relative's neck?

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: kendall
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 07:29 PM

Wait a minute here...we are supposed to believe that a man made machine can exert enough pressure to turn carbon into diamonds?

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 07:41 PM

Hell khandu, you're at least on the right track. Garg's such a tight ass himself that he shits diamonds already.......the quality ain't much, but the smell is really the problem. He dropped one he had made into a ring and a cat covered it up.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Humans are forever
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:11 PM

They collect the carbon created when a body is cremated, turn it into graphite then send it to a lab in Germany who put it under intense pressure to make diamonds.

Its already been done....haven't you ever heard of Diamond Jim Brady?