Teh One Who Knocks
12-23-2013, 12:32 PM
By Lee Moran / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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A grieving Italian father had his dead son transformed into a diamond.
The devastated dad exhumed and cremated the 20-year-old’s body before sending the ashes off to Switzerland so they could be compressed into the gemstone.
The son, killed in a car crash this year, had already been buried in his hometown of Treviso when his pop came up with the idea.
The process, which can cost as much as $18,000, includes filtering and refinement of the carbon found in the ashes.
They are then secured in a high-pressure chamber to be turned into the diamond, reports The Local digital news site.
The 55-year-old father received the synthetic “Remembrance Diamond” back eight months later.
http://i.imgur.com/z3nvocP.jpg
A grieving Italian father had his dead son transformed into a diamond.
The devastated dad exhumed and cremated the 20-year-old’s body before sending the ashes off to Switzerland so they could be compressed into the gemstone.
The son, killed in a car crash this year, had already been buried in his hometown of Treviso when his pop came up with the idea.
The process, which can cost as much as $18,000, includes filtering and refinement of the carbon found in the ashes.
They are then secured in a high-pressure chamber to be turned into the diamond, reports The Local digital news site.
The 55-year-old father received the synthetic “Remembrance Diamond” back eight months later.