Human Diamonds

Diamonds Are Forever is the title of one of the James Bond films the character created by Ian Fleming was also and perhaps still is the advertising slogan of the Bears Diamond Consortium now and according to a spokesperson for the German undertaker's firm Vesta crystal, some of that immortality of diamonds can be transferred to anyone with enough money to pay for it, the 24-year-old German René Andrew is the manager of the funeral company mentioned at the beginning and to the astonishment of many in the most recent catalog of the firm that he directs included something really unusual, the possibility of turning the ashes of a deceased person who is cremated into genuine diamonds of up to 1.5 carats. Something that, as is to be expected, was taken as a joke in bad taste at first, but when Mr. Andrew explained what the procedure was like and that already several corpses cremated in his company had been transformed into splendid diamonds, it caused a real furor in the spandau berlin district with numerous potential customers eager to become jewelry after death, explained the inventor, the human body contains almost 20% of the carbon that is the raw material of a diamond the technique consists of purifying the ashes of a corpse that It has been cremated through a chemical process that seeks to extract the carbon. These remains are then deposited in a special machine that can reach a pressure of up to 60,000 kilo bars and temperatures close to 500 degrees Celsius. The time required for said procedure may depend on the size of the diamond desired by the client, but with a normal stone it is intended that it can last up to six weeks and even longer t time if necessary. The result will be a precious stone carved and polished according to the requirements of the deceased, whose ashes, instead of being buried or dispersed to the wind and transformed into a diamond, can be embedded in a ring, bracelet or earrings that a family member may carry with them. forever [Music] the approximate cost of the human diamond can vary between 3,000 and 7,000 euros and so that there are no doubts that the final product is legitimate, whoever receives it will obtain a certificate of authenticity and its serial number engraved with a laser beam . The interest in human ashes transformed into gems thanks to the inventiveness of businessman René Andrew, as well as Swiss technology, which is where the procedure is carried out, since in Germany the laws require that all corpses be buried and not cremated. such that the young businessman had to associate with the laboratory that carried out the work. To date, Andrew declared, more than 100 people walk the streets of Berlin wearing their grandparents, couples and parents in rings, choker bracelets and earrings in which they are set in a diamond shape, it even seems that there is a case in which like an inconsolable widow managed to get a dentist to place one of those funeral gems of her husband in one of her front teeth.