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what about Louis as we move on here
churning the ashes Ave deceased relative
into diamonds this is a story on NPR
and it is incredible there's a Swiss company called al gore dons a
which takes cremated human remains
and under very high heat in very high pressure that mimic the conditions deep
within the earth that create diamonds
compresses the human remains into diamonds Rinaldo willie
is the company's founder and CEO he says he came up with this idea about ten
years ago
and that his customer base now reaches 24 countries he says every year
they take the remains %uh 800 to 900
people and three months later they exit as diamonds to be kept in a box or
turned into jewelry
he says most of the stern stones come out blue
because it trace amounts to boron in the human body
all those occasionally one will come out yellow or gray or black
most of the people are being delivered the remains are being delivered by
relatives of the deceased
what do you think about this it cost five thousand to twenty two thousand
dollars it cost as much as some funerals
and this is the same laboratory process that is used to create synthetic
diamonds
it basically reduces the ash into carbon
and then applies intense heat and pressure for weeks
and then you basically have something that closely resembles a diamond
most of the time according to willie people take the diamonds to jewelers
and then they make it into like a ringer a pendant that you can actually
physically where
yeah I think it's kinda creepy and it's pretty pricey
by in makes a.m. much more sense than then burying people
which eventually do to you the population increases will just be
impractical
I am but at all so as I said before I I find something
appealing about being buried in returning to the earth by yada yada yada
so
I don't know if it makes people happy good at the rate we're at the question
is it just another way for people to deal with the
kinda hereof or uncertainty
around death either if you are the one having this done here relative or if you
sign up to have this done to yourself when you when you pass away
it really changes the meaning of the term family jewels though doesn't
it really dies in you know what this is a much better way to get diamonds
badnaam than those blood diamonds are conflict diamonds right
that's a fair point attitude that that's an industry that i won nothing to do
with