Michael Jackson's Hair Will Be Turned Into Diamonds and Sold

A month after the Michael Jackson frenzy, one nettlesome question still remains: how do we best cash in on the singer’s death?  Entrepreneurs all over the world, many of them not even in the Jackson family, have tried, whether through the sale of memorial plates or emroidered pillows or unreleased songs, but none have succeeded in making a product as expensively creepy as LifeGem, the gem company that turns the bodies of your loved ones into diamonds!

The company claims “it obtained the strands [of MJ's hair] from the producer of the infamous 1984 Pepsi advert in which the singer’s hair caught fire.”  A perfectly natural transaction!  If you are interested in buying Ryan Seacrest‘s lungs, they can set that up too.  But how does hair get made into diamonds?  And at what price?  

“We are currently evaluating Jackson’s hair sample to determine how many diamonds can be created. This will be a limited collection and we anticipate great interest,” said Dean VandenBiesen, the founder of LifeGem, which is based in Chicago.

The company claims to have carried out the same process on hair belonging to the composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

Its technique relies on subjecting the carbon found in biological matter to intense pressures, recreating the extremes of temperature and stress below the earth’s surface that transforms rock into diamond crystals.

You basically put the hair in the microwave and when you take it out, it’s a perfectly cut and polished diamond.

LifeGem generally charges between £2,500 and £15,000 ($3300 to $24,800) to bereaved relatives who want a permanent memento of their loved ones, but Jackson diamonds would command a far higher price.

Because he was the most gloved one of all.

Source: The Telegraph.  If you would like to make a body part into diamonds, LifeGem may be for you.