What more could any guy want than to be turned into that diamond that just finishes off a gorgeous girl's outfit. Maybe in a nice necklace or in a ring.
Diamonds are carbon. Your ashes will contain some carbon although it was not included in O'Neill's analysis.
However, there isn't much carbon in your ashes compared to the amount of Phosphate and Calcium. This is why the earliest - (circa 2002) - process to turn you into a diamond for one of your love's rings, employed incineration interruptus and a special carbon collection kit. The door of the cremation chamber is opened. Four ounces of tissue are removed from one of your organs and put in a special sealed conatiner. A cover is put on the container and it is placed back in the retort. At the end of the process the container is removed from the chamber. Your organ material has been reduced to dry, crispy flakes.
A crucible containing your carbon is placed in a vacuum induction furnace. All oxygen is pumped out from the furnace and the temperature sent up to 3000 degrees F. The high temperature removes impurities, but because their is no oxygen the carbon is preserved and transformed into graphite by the high temperature.
You (a little pile of graphite powder) are placed in a diamond press and subjected to 900,000 pounds per square inch at 3000 degrees F. The longer you stay in the press, the bigger the gem you turn into.
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