My mom told me a story today about this…thing this woman she’s working with right now is planning to do. Both of us find her plan peculiar and freaky and kind of repulsive, but we are related and we do sometimes think alike. So I thought I’d turn to you, people of the Internet, to see what your opinion is.
This woman is going to have herself cremated after she dies. No, that’s not the weird part. The weird part is that she’s paying some company $5,000 to take her ashes and turn them into a diamond pendant. And she’s really excited about the fact that she’s going to have herself made into pseudo-heirloom jewelry for her daughter to wear.
I don’t get this, and I’m the most sentimental person in the world. I attach meaning to and save plenty of stuff other people would throw away. And if my mom chooses to be cremated when she dies – many, many, many years from now, please – I’ll keep her ashes or scatter them as she wishes, and I’ll treasure any number of keepsakes from her, but I absolutely, positively will NOT want to wear her around as jewelry. Just thinking about it creeps me out big time. What’s your reaction? Do you see cremation diamonds as the sweet beginning of a family tradition, or just plain ghoulish and bizarre?
freakish. i wouldn't do it, either.
Oh, that most definitely falls into the category of weird & freaky. I mean, a diamond pendant would be easier to keep around than a container of ashes, so I can sort of get behind the idea in theory. But actually wearing it? Ewwww.
I've heard of that before - but I've never really thought about it. How would one accept compliments on the diamond?
"What a lovely pendant you are wearing!"
"Why, thank you. It IS my mother." (Not it WAS my mother's - or my mother gave it to me - it really IS my mother.)
Odd.
I've heard of that too and it struck me as odd. But hey, anything for a buck, I guess.
EWWWW - that is just wrong
I can appreciate the sentiment, but really, that's like carrying your mom's ashes around in a really really cool urn.