LifeGem - they take the carbon ashes of your loved one's remains (or even your DOG) and make them into a man-made diamond. While kind of neat, I just don't think I like the idea of wearing Grandpa around on a pendant!
LOL - I didn't know you had plans to wear ANY form of deceased person's body around your neck! I guess this would definitely be easier and more beautiful! ^_^
At first I though "eek!" Then I realized that really we are all made from dead things and will continue to make up the body chemistry of more living things when we are gone.
Maybe it's just the initial idea that's disturbing.
Could be... I am half amazed and half repulsed.... I think that my final thought on the matter was, since I don't think that a corpse is a very important thing anyway, I don't see any point in preserving it this way rather than letting it become fertilizer! lol
I guess I always think of my loved ones as something beyond their physical body. The body is just a shell, and I don't have much interest in keeping that around... although it IS a lovely symbol and reminder of the person that once was housed in that shell...
Ack! I'm so undecided! lol - I could go either way! Still a FASCINATING idea though, either way!
You are always going to visualize a loved one in their body though. That's the part of them you hugged, kissed, made love to, gave birth to. Seeing them put into a hole in the ground and left for the worms is more morbid, IMO. I would rather my loved one's body be made into something representing their life. I love the idea of plastination, shooting ashes off in fireworks, that sort of thing. This is just another way to do that.
You make a good point... Their "spirit" will always have that image of their physical form in memories...
Nevertheless, being far too obsessed with soil science and general evolutionary views of many other sciences I have been a part of, I still love the idea of that body being part of the necessary organic matter added to sedimentary deposits to create soil, which ultimately goes on to feed life of all kinds, including the worms and plants and flowers and birds and fluffy baby bunnies, &c., &c.!
Where would ANY life on earth be without soil? And where would the SOIL be without life (which has ended)? Now that is something beautiful to a weirdo like me. ^_^
See, then I would suggest donating your body to the Body Farm, where future scientists can study the decomposition of your body in different settings for forensic use.
And remember, diamonds are simply compacted, heated soil.
No, they're pure and compressed CARBON - all organic. Soil is a mixture of sand and/or silt and/or clay (or a mixture that we call loam) plus organic materials. But anyway, forensic uses aren't earthy enough for me ;) - I think I'll just stick with my pine box in the ground ^_^
For some reason I could see wearing my dog on my finger, but not a human loved one. Hmm. Maybe it's because I never met a human I want to spend that much time with. But, then I think how I'd like to see my own body show up some day on a cheap band in a pawn shop window... No thanks. I'm with you, a pine box in the woods someplace would be preferable.
It would be weird to be eating a ham sandwich and all of a sudden look down and have your dead aunt sitting right there on your finger. And what if it got damaged or what if you lost it. It would be neat for those that seriously would want to do it. I think I'd rather be buried under a tree.
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Date: 2005-07-27 09:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-28 12:05 am (UTC)Maybe it's just the initial idea that's disturbing.
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Date: 2005-07-28 06:20 am (UTC)I guess I always think of my loved ones as something beyond their physical body. The body is just a shell, and I don't have much interest in keeping that around... although it IS a lovely symbol and reminder of the person that once was housed in that shell...
Ack! I'm so undecided! lol - I could go either way! Still a FASCINATING idea though, either way!
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Date: 2005-07-28 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 07:15 am (UTC)Nevertheless, being far too obsessed with soil science and general evolutionary views of many other sciences I have been a part of, I still love the idea of that body being part of the necessary organic matter added to sedimentary deposits to create soil, which ultimately goes on to feed life of all kinds, including the worms and plants and flowers and birds and fluffy baby bunnies, &c., &c.!
Where would ANY life on earth be without soil? And where would the SOIL be without life (which has ended)? Now that is something beautiful to a weirdo like me. ^_^
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Date: 2005-07-28 07:20 am (UTC)And remember, diamonds are simply compacted, heated soil.
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Date: 2005-07-28 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 06:20 pm (UTC)> and have your dead aunt sitting right there on your finger.
(laughing) Thanks for the visual!
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