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You can now wear your cremated relatives or pets as an attractive piece of jewellery. A company in Chicago is offering to make synthetic diamonds from the ashes of the deceased, which you can then have mounted in the jewellery of your choice.

Greg Herro of LifeGem Memorials says he can produce good-quality gems, albeit small ones, from pets or people’s ashes, using a process he spent three years perfecting. His technique, based on an industrial diamond-manufacturing process, begins in the cremation oven, where oxygen levels are reduced to prevent the loved one’s carbon atoms escaping as CO2.…

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