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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (15877)	8/22/2002 9:11:54 PM
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i wonder how many carats i would be.. ananova.com Firm turns cremated bodies into diamonds Humans can now last forever thanks to a US company that has created a process for turning cremated bodies into diamonds. Chicago based LifeGem is taking orders to make jewellery from the carbon remains of people or pets for as little as £3,000. Dean VandenBiesen, who helped set up the company, says the idea came from his brother who is also working on the enterprise. Mr VandenBiesen said: "The traditional methods of burial or having ashes in an urn just didn't sit right with him. "But he realised that man is made of carbon and diamonds are made of carbon so he just put the two ideas together." Technicians collect the carbon created when a body is cremated and have it turned into graphite. The graphite is then sent to a lab in Germany that creates the stones by simulating the intense pressure and temperature needed to make diamonds. Man made diamonds have been manufactured since the 1950s when General Electric started making them for industrial use. High quality diamonds have been made since the mid 1990s. Greg Herro, chief executive of the LifeGem, acknowledges that some will consider it a "pretty wacky idea". But several funeral homes have already signed up for the service. Doug Ahlgrim, director of Ahlgrim & Sons Funeral Services in Illinois, said: "An urn is beautiful in its own right, but you certainly can't take it wherever you go." Story filed: 00:32 Friday 23rd August 2002