Coffee Talk

  Diamonds, they say, are forever. 

A recent innovation adds new meaning to this perception.  Grieving survivors of departed loved ones can now compress the ashes into diamonds. 

The question, however, is what exactly are they, the survivors, to do with these diamonds?  String them around their necks? Or set them in rings?  

Imagine them going round their social circles, flashing the carats. “This is my so-and-so. Doesn’t he look beautiful on my manicured finger? 

That’s morbid.  It’s a tad disrespectful, too. 

It’s not as if the stones are technically what used to be their loved ones.  Diamonds are glorified carbon.  That means that potassium and calcium in the ashes, which were the bones, would first have to be removed in the process. 

And where does the carbon come from?  Probably from the dead persons’ flesh and organs.

Oh, I forgot.  There are the wooden caskets, too.

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