Bling the Dead

Life Gem is a company that takes the remains of your loved ones (or loved animals) and synthesizes a diamond. The diamond is indeed real, and it is indeed made of 8 oz. of carbon from your loved ones, at roughly $1,000 per ounce: lifegem.com



You can make what you want out of it. Though clients claim that they can forever wear a piece of their loved ones, it raises a certain ethical paradigm between the diamond ring as a commodified article of jewelry and the "sacred" ashes of the respectfully dead.