While most of you think you're too young to think about these things, it's never too soon to discuss with your partner just what a lovely diamond ring you could be converted to once the undertaker hands over the urn.
Posted by Bobby Farouk at November 3, 2005 07:25 AMGives new meaning to "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend"...
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at November 3, 2005 10:30 AMOf course you're assuming Joel will be the first to go.
Posted by: Bobby Farouk at November 3, 2005 10:59 AMGood grief, no, not thinking of it personally, perish the thought and God forbid, and anyway J. works out and I don't. No, what got me was the right-column testimonial on the LifeGem site, which I now find has changed, from a widow saying "Skip is a lovely gem."
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at November 3, 2005 02:07 PMHow ghastly to think that that's someone's grandma between that pair of tweezers.
Posted by: Alan Hogue at November 4, 2005 02:52 PMHrmph! You weren't so offended when it was just a dinosaur or a conifers between the tweezers.
Speciesist!
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at November 4, 2005 07:51 PMNot that weirder hasn't been done with people. My great-uncle is in a planter box outside the boardinghouse he ran in Ocean City. Lee Hays (a figure otherwise as unlike my great-uncle as possible) had his ashes buried in his beloved compost heap...
Actually what it reminded me of most was the shudder-making story involving diamonds and immortality in Ursula LeGuin's otherwise mid-quality story collection *Changing Planes*. Has anyone else read that one & if not would people mind spoilers?
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at November 4, 2005 11:37 PM