Hi, Dotsie: One of the daughters of a deceased parent had a guest spot on a British show a few years back. I can't quite remember whether it was the father or the mother who had passed away but the daughter did subscribe to the carbon/diamond manner of immortalising remains and she had it on show at that programme. To each his own, I suppose but one thing I am sure of, I would like to "rest in peace" when I am gone and not be dangling on my daughter's ear lobes or flashed about as an ornament. I don't think she would like that idea either. The eco conscious way seem to be much more edifying of a sense of unity with all that is around us. My funeral plan calls for my cremation when I am gone with a proviso that some of my ashes are to be strewn in Fatima, Portugal - the rest to be in an urn which I hope to make myself.