Owners Turn Cat into Black Diamond Ring
A while back, we posted a blog about some dog owners who turned their dead pets into sweaters. Not the most fashionable of statements, but it certainly had its share of sentimental value. Well, now a cat owner has followed that same sentiment and turned her dead black cat into a diamond ring.
When Sooty the black cat passed away suddenly at the age of 11, owner Sue Rogers was devastated. She turned to Chicago-based LifeGem, a company that actually specializes in turning dead people and animals into gems (WHAT?), and requested a black diamond to match Sooty’s dark coat.
It had never been done before, so the company had to create a new technique to develop the black diamond: They extracted two grams of carbon from Sooty’s ashes, placed that in a diamond press, exposed it to temperatures of 3,000 degrees Celsius and placed it under one million pounds of pressure for two weeks. Once grown, the gem was placed under electrons for 24 hours, which gradually changed the color from clear to black.
The result is a gold ring resembling a flower with white diamonds surrounding a third-of-a-carat black diamond.
It’s the only diamond in the world created from a pile of ashes.
May 24th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Gross!
May 26th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I love it. I think it’s a great way to remember your pet. Since I’m against diamonds, I would go with cubic zirconiums though.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Wow!!
That is so cool. Now a days you can turn anything into something. lol
June 8th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Only if you have money to burn, literally. Let these animals go in peace. If having them cremated works best for you, then leave them in the urn, instead of extracting their DNA. Who’s to know what happens after all that?