The entire operation—from initial receipt of ashes to final delivery of the diamond—typically takes five to eight months. The company processes approximately 1,000 memorial diamonds a year and ...

After 10 months of growth, the resulting gem actually wound up being 1.76-carats — but it's still the largest memorial diamond ever made by the company. Some customers take the rough gem ...

Its possible to separate out the carbon from the other elements in the ashes and those carbon atoms can be used to mimic the natural diamond-making process in the lab. These "memorial" diamonds ...