Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Diamonds… LifeGem is turning the ashes of your dead beloved into diamonds

"Like the memory of a loved one, a diamond lasts forever.

What is a LifeGem?
The LifeGem is a certified, high-quality diamond created from the
carbon of your loved one...
as a memorial to their unique life.
as a symbol of your personal and precious bond.
Whether you've lost a loved one or simply want to celebrate your love, the LifeGem diamond provides a way to embrace your loved one’s memory day by day. The LifeGem is the most unique and timeless tribute available for creating a testimony to their unique life.
Your LifeGem memorial will offer comfort and support when and where you need it, and provide a lasting memory that endures just as a diamond does. Forever.

"If you desire an everlasting connection to the one you have lost, the LifeGem is right for you. Each LifeGem, as a celebration of life, tells a unique story and represents a new beginning. With the closeness offered only by a LifeGem, you will have your loved one with you and in your life at all times. And of course, as the LifeGem is a one-of-a-kind diamond, it will be a treasured heirloom in your family for generations to come.
With a LifeGem, rest assured that you have the most exquisite memorial available.

Created Individually For You
High-quality created diamonds have been present for many years. These diamonds are created by placing carbon, the primary element of all diamonds, in conditions that recreate the forces of nature. The LifeGem process differs by using an exact carbon source to create a beautiful and meaningful diamond tribute for you and your family.
In summary, here is how we create your LifeGem diamond...

Step 1. Carbon Capture - Now, after extensive research and development, we have discovered how to extract the carbon from a lock of hair. This advanced and delicate procedure has been specifically designed to capture almost all of the available carbon in a lock of hair. Our technology works only in a special high-nitrogen, low-oxygen atmosphere. We have refined this process to ensure the maximum available carbon for your LifeGem diamond(s).
Originally, we began the LifeGem creation process by capturing carbon from existing remains of your loved one's standard cremation. While we can, and still do, use this process for those who have previously lost a loved one, capturing carbon from a lock of hair means a LifeGem diamond is now available for anyone choosing cremation or burial... or if you purely want to create a symbol of your precious bond with someone you love.
Step 2. Purification - Once captured, this carbon is heated to extremely high temperatures under special conditions. While removing the existing ash, this process converts your loved one’s carbon to graphite with unique characteristics and elements that will create your one-of-a-kind LifeGem diamond like no other in this world.
Step 3. Creation - To create your LifeGem, we now place this graphite in one of our unique diamond presses, which replicate the awesome forces deep within the earth - heat and pressure. The more time in the press, the larger the rough diamond crystal that results.
Step 4. Certification - Finally, our skilled diamond cutters facet your LifeGem diamond(s) according to your wishes, laser etch your unique identifier on the girdle, and certify it for authenticity. All LifeGem diamonds are individually inspected, graded, and identified by world-renowned gemologists trained by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). The world’s finest jewelers use this same certification process.
A diamond that takes millions of years to occur naturally can now be created from the carbon of your loved one in about twenty-four weeks. (Blue LifeGem diamonds may take longer.)"


“Hi Rusty

I just got the diamond!

It is beautiful and I am so happy! I will definitely write a story about Arf and include a picture ... I have the setting for my ring at the jewelers, so I'm going to go there today!!

Thanks, to all of you ... so much!! I love having this bit of Arf to keep with me always!

Thanks, again.

Anne Tell”

“Thank-you! Thank-you!

They are wonderful. What a great service.

I love you all for giving us all the effort and care. Our mom and dad forever!

God bless to all.

Lore Coultrap (Daughter)”


“The decision to choose a LifeGem was made a couple of years before my husband died. We made it together whilst watch a report on ITV meridian about LifeGem. After my husband died, I remembered my promise. I now have a fabulous yellow diamond set in a ring. The diamond appears to change colour with the light, it sparkles and glistens at me- it provided comfort immediately.

My Funeral Director was wonderful and explained everything fully. I asked her if she knew anything about LifeGem, she’d seen adverts and she got the information for me. I’ve been back to show her the diamond so she can tell other people of this marvellous opportunity to have a tribute nearby and not in a remote crematorium which I have no link with other than my husband was cremated there.

LifeGem UK were attentive throughout the whole process, they came and collected the Ashes and then kept me up to date with the progress. They also advised me about colour and cut.

It was definitely the right thing to do.

Janette Clay (wife)”

“Yesterday, I received the two LifeGems that you sent. They look beautiful!!!

Thank you very much for all you've done for us.

The timing was good, as my younger son, Marcus, was asked to bring some things to his grief support group in one week. He previously brought the yellow diamond, and now he can bring the blue ones.”

Bless you, and all who contributed to the 'LifeGem' dream!!"

James Hatfield (Husband)

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