Well heck, if it only costs about as much as a funeral anyway….
The cremated remains of 80-year-old Edna MacArthur from Alberta have been presented to her family in the form of a diamond stone, the first delivery of this kind in the world, a funeral services official claimed Tuesday.
Crawford said MacArthur’s remains were compressed into a 3-gram sample and flown to Italy where an Italian firm uses intense heat to incorporate the remains into carbon used to craft a diamond.
The 1/4-carat diamond was presented Monday to MacArthur’s granddaughter, Tracey Somerville, and Tracey’s mother, Teresa, who used to keep the cremation urn in their living room, Crawford said.
