Giving New Meaning to the Term "My Grandmother's Ring"
A family in Canada will soon be sporting a jewel made from a dead relative. The family had Grandma's cremated remains made into a synthetic diamond through a process using intense heat. The diamond will be placed in a gold ring. "Hey, you got to wear Grandma yesterday! It's my turn today."
In other bizarre Canadian death rituals, a Toronto company will create a painting including the cremated remains of your loved one. If only Andy Warhol had been cremated, one could literally fulfill the words of the David Bowie song "Andy Warhol looks a scream. Hang him on my wall." In a way, I imagine Warhol might have actually appreciated that. He would have been truly immortalized by art.
Comments
Sigh. Life used to be simpler when were a mere frozen wasteland. But I guess every country needs its consumer niche....
Posted by: Jane | January 2, 2003 10:33 AM
I think you should turn it into a snappy slogan - "Come to Canada, where death be not proud!"
Posted by: Lesley | January 2, 2003 04:33 PM