It’s gratuitous and extreme and wonderful: We can turn our mortal remains into diamonds. Real diamonds. Using high-tech machines, engineers can transform the carbon from human ashes into diamond ...

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Amanda Kloots is honoring her late husband, Nick Cordero, by transforming some of his ashes into a custom diamond ring, which ...

When the company receives ashes from a customer, a technician puts a sample into a special oven to see if there's enough carbon to grow a diamond. If there's not enough, the amount of carbon in a ...

Equestrian enthusiasts can utilize horse hair, turning it to diamonds, or ashes from homes burned in the LA Fires can be transformed into diamonds, offering a tangible way to preserve memories and ...

Diamonds are forever, so some will jump at the chance to press their loved one’s ashes into diamonds. Diamonds are just pieces of carbon that have been put under immense pressure, and since ...

Ashes and Diamonds tells the story of Maciek Chelmicki ... Several of the tangential characters are turned into important human beings, worth pausing over, and thinking about.

After sending over some of Cordero's ashes in a canister, Kloots now gets to be involved as the company transforms them into carbon — eventually creating the diamonds and returning the ring home ...