Your Loved One's Ashes

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If you're looking for a creative way to memorialize a deceased friend or relative, consider turning a piece of them into something you can wear every day.

Glass artist Merry Coor specializes in making memorial ash beads that incorporate loved one's cremains into glass. After a couple asked her to capture their departed friend's ashes in a bead, Coor realized she could make extremely meaningful jewelry.

E. Chris Wisner

Now she sells glass pendants that incorporate a sprinkle of cremains inside them. She starts by making a round bead, then places the ashes in a spiral shape around the hot glass. Finally she encases the entire thing with clear glass. Moor says that, when placing their order, mourners can include the deceased's favorite music, so that it can be played while she works. She tries to make sure each bead is made with love and positive energy:

When I go into my studio to make a bead, I am centered and my thoughts are clear. I am in a good mood. I put only my best energy into each bead. If I am sick or having a bad day, I don’t make beads. I only want good energy, love, and good thoughts incorporated into each bead I make.

You can purchase one of these beautiful beads on her website or Etsy page.

And the Artist who makes Beautiful Glass from ashes:  http://www.artfulashes.com/Home.html

Or there is the company who will turn those ashes into a diamond:   algordanza.com

Algordanza, a Swiss company, has taken a fascinating and unexpected approach to memorializing our loved ones who have passed; They will compress and super-heat your loved one’s cremated ashes and turn them into a man-made diamond that can be worn and cherished.

It all begins with a chemical process that extracts the carbon from the departed’s ashes. This carbon is then heated to convert it into graphite. That graphite is then heated to as many as 2,700 degrees Fehrenheit and subjected to forces as high as 870,000 pounds per square inch. The color of the finished diamond, which can range from white to dark blue, depends on the boron content of the ashes of the deceased. The prices begin at 4,259 Swiss Francs ($4,474 USD) for a small diamond with no additional service.

The human body is 18% carbon. 2% of this carbon remains after cremation, and it is this carbon that Algordanza uses to make their diamonds