Um... yeah, sure...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Beethoven composed many enduring symphonies, but now a Chicago company wants to make a Beethoven piece that lasts forever -- a diamond made out of strands of the 18th-century composer's hair.
LifeGem Memorials, a company that first gained attention in 2002 by making diamonds out of the carbon from cremated human remains, now says it can make diamonds out of human hair, allowing people to bury their loved ones but still have a memento they can carry with them.
To publicize this -- and to raise money for charity -- the company has teamed with John Reznikoff, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the largest and most valuable collection of celebrity hair.
Reznikoff is giving six to 10 strands of Beethoven's hair to LifeGem, which will use it in a process to create three diamonds of between 0.5 and 1 carat in weight.
(article HERE)
LifeGem Memorials, a company that first gained attention in 2002 by making diamonds out of the carbon from cremated human remains, now says it can make diamonds out of human hair, allowing people to bury their loved ones but still have a memento they can carry with them.
To publicize this -- and to raise money for charity -- the company has teamed with John Reznikoff, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the largest and most valuable collection of celebrity hair.
Reznikoff is giving six to 10 strands of Beethoven's hair to LifeGem, which will use it in a process to create three diamonds of between 0.5 and 1 carat in weight.
(article HERE)
posted by Amethyst Rising at 5:48 AM
3 Comments:
Wow... what a way to bring the people of this world together.
[laughing]
One of my good friends was going to have this done with her ashes after her death because she has one big diamond and two daughters. She was going to have it made then leave them both to the two girls so one wouldn't feel slighted. She wasn't going to tell them what she was going to have done, because one is so squemish that she'd freak if she was the one who got "Mommy". How's that for hysterical?
That is funny... As long as you're not the unknowing daughter! LOL
Sort of made me think of another blog post to write about... Hmm...
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