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Friday, 16th September 2005 (5973 views)

Consumers in the US are choosing to have jewellery made from the gold teeth of their deceased loved ones.

A collection of 200 international experts will today be descending on the University of Bath to discuss death, and jewellery forms a part of this, notes the Independent.

Gold jewellery has long formed a part of burial rituals. For example the ancient Egyptians buried their dead along with gold jewellery to take into the next world.

Now, in a bizarre reversal of ancient traditions, jewellery is kept by the living in the form of their deceased's body.

Diamonds called Lifegem and costing £10,000 can be constructed from the carbon in the deceased's brain and gold teeth can be fashioned into jewellery to remember them by.

Gold jewellery is associated with momentous occasions such as marriages, births and now deaths as it is enduring and acts as a token of remembrance.

 

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