April 3, 2007
Dad can’t be turned into a diamond
Stumble it!A German teenager has lost her battle to turn dead dad into diamond.
The 19-year-old wanted to turn her dead father’s ashes into a diamond but her bizarre plan was thwarted by her grandmother.
A district court in Wiesbaden ruled the woman could not take the cremated remains to Switzerland where a company creates synthetic diamonds from ashes.
Ruling in favour of his 86-year-old mother, the court in Western Germany, said: “The daughter of the deceased could not provide sufficient proof that it was his final wish to be pressed into a diamond.”
The court said the daughter’s views on the care of the remains took precedence over the wishes of the dead man’s mother but ruled that any decision had to be in accordance with the expressed wishes of the deceased.
The ashes are placed in a press under intense pressure and heat, replicating the forces that create a natural diamond, over a period of several months.
Synthetic diamonds have been manufactured from carbon since the mid-1950s.
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