Post #279,944
3/29/07 8:24:30 AM
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Diamonds are forever, I guess
This is just a bit too weird for me:
[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/29/diamond_geezer/|http://www.theregist...9/diamond_geezer/]
Seamus
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Post #279,948
3/29/07 9:48:25 AM
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Ummm . . . that's weird?
They could have had him drained out and pumped full of chemical preservatives, locked him up in an expensive upholstered box, locked that up in a vault and buried the whole works in a hole in the ground. Now that would have been weird.
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Post #279,951
3/29/07 10:12:08 AM
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What about...
The fact that many Funeral Parlors and Cemeterys now have "rental" deals going on. - Someone dies
- Embalming still happens
- Family gets to RENT an Ornamental casket for $900 for upto 72 Hours
- The funeral procession goes and dumps the body in the ground (without burying the casket and such)
- The Funeral Parlor takes the casket back to the parlor
- Transfers the body into a cheap but "well built" storage container for dead flesh
- Ornamental Casket is fully cleaned and prepared for the next $CUSTOMER
- The "new casket" is buried
- A "plaqued" headstone is used as the grave marker.
- Everyone makes their way over to the burial site over the next $TIME_FRAME arranged for
- When rental of the plot is runs out, cemetery digs the casket up.
- Cemetery sends casket back to Funeral Parlor
- Cemetery prepares burial site for next $CUSTOMER
- Funeral Parlor cremates said body
- Returns ashes to said family or re-buries them in a mausoleum or where ever arranged for.
- Casket(s) are fully cleaned and turned around for the next $CUSTOMER
All for much cheaper than a "traditional" burial. I know, thats what my Father in-law bought for he and his wife. -- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwetheyFreedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;
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Post #279,952
3/29/07 10:28:04 AM
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Well, that's just sicker yet.
Go through all the motions but be cheap about it.
Next step is to bribe a few celebrities to go through this mill so you can charge extra for reuse of the boxes they were showcased in and the holes they were temporarily planted in.
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Post #279,960
3/29/07 11:28:17 AM
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Historically very common
That sort of thing was historically very common in Europe. But they did it as much for reasons of saving space as money.
Jay
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Post #279,953
3/29/07 11:01:18 AM
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That is a sad industry praying on human emotion
Possibly depraved.
I understand cremation, but making diamonds out of the carbon of what used to be a loved one just seems a bit much.
But, then I never did understand collecting locks of peoples hair, bronzing baby shoes or other similar fetishes.
Seamus
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Post #279,954
3/29/07 11:08:32 AM
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getting pretty common
now buy a plot of several hundred acres in a remote area under an assumed name. Dig a big firepit. Buy a couple of hundred cubic zirconiums. We could make some real money.
Me find the cheapest cremation possible. On the families next trip[ north pollute the land. Done
thanx,
bill
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Post #280,044
3/29/07 10:25:17 PM
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Even worse
You can buy jewelry to contain bits of your cremated loved one. All the family members can sport Dear Ol' Dad around their necks.
Smile,
Amy
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Post #280,052
3/29/07 11:06:21 PM
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I remember one guy . . .
. . and probably others have followed by now - had his ashes taken to a ceramicist who used them for an ash glaze on a jar.
Pretty cool - his family can use the jar to contain all the diamonds they have the rest of their relatives made into - that wasn't an option yet in his day.
With first quality flawless diamonds fast headed for a couple hundred bucks a carat the diamond makers have to have some sort of trick to stay profitable. Making your deceased relatives into diamonds is a really cool idea.
Peggy came by a couple of weeks ago to pick up the ashes of her mom, who had resided the last 5 years or so on a shelf in my garage (had to move her out there 'cause I needed the bookshelf space). Unfortunately her mom was just not diamond grade material, so I suspect she'll just get planted somewhere.
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Post #280,074
3/30/07 8:22:21 AM
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:)
How sad! Not Diamond Material? That Billy Joe Shaver song is going through my head right now: I'm just an old lump of coal
But I'm gonna be a diamond someday. Smile,
Amy
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