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title: Convert cremated ashes into a diamond
date: "2002-08-23T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1206
description: I discovered that funeral homes offer a service to convert cremated human ashes into synthetic diamonds. It is a bizarre way to memorialize the deceased by transforming carbon remains into unique, lab-grown gemstones.
keywords: [cremation, diamond synthesis, memorial diamonds, funeral industry, lab-grown diamonds, synthetic diamonds]
---

Bizarre. Funeral homes offer to [convert cremated ashes into a diamond](http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/08/22/13423304).