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Our Life Tributes program offers a customized and animated video, personalized memorial folders honoring your loved one's life. Each part of the Life Tributes program uses photos of your loved one combined with one of our various themes to help capture the essence of your loved one's life. At Knapp-Johnson Funeral Home, we offer only the best to our families. |
LifeGem Memorials Announces Its Plan to Create the Beethoven LifeGem, the World’s First Celebrity Diamond Memorial New technology makes it possible to create diamonds from a lock of hair
CHICAGO, May 17, 2006 – LifeGem Memorials, the world’s purveyor of carbon-based memorials, is announcing the creation of three Ludwig Van Beethoven LifeGems, which will be the first diamond created from the carbon of a celebrity or historical figure. Each Beethoven LifeGem will be a certified, high quality diamond between .5 and 1 carat in size.
“The Beethoven LifeGem offers us an opportunity to highlight new technology that captures carbon from strands of hair,” explains Greg Herro, chief executive officer of LifeGem Memorials. “However, most LifeGems will be created for families who choose burial, but still want a personal heirloom they can pass from generation to generation.”
PARTNER CONTRIBUTION
Families in the Knapp - Johnson Funeral Home area who will choose burial or want to create an heirloom while they are alive can contact a certified LifeGem partner with Knapp - Johnson Funeral Home.
The locks of hair used for Beethoven are authenticated and provided exclusively by John Reznikoff, president of University Archives and holder of the Guinness World Record for the largest and most valuable collection of celebrity and historical hair. Reznikoff’s collection also includes such figures as Napoleon, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
In the next six months, Beethoven’s carbon will be collected, purified into graphite, subjected to heat and pressure in a diamond press, and finally faceted into a LifeGem. After a worldwide tour of museums, the Beethoven LifeGems will be auctioned online and the proceeds will go towards creating LifeGems for military families.
Ranging from one-quarter to one carat, the LifeGem is certified by the world’s foremost gemologists trained by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). The LifeGem is produced in blue and yellow, and future options will include red.
More information about LifeGem is available on our resources page.
CHICAGO, May 17, 2006 – LifeGem Memorials, the world’s purveyor of carbon-based memorials, is announcing the creation of three Ludwig Van Beethoven LifeGems, which will be the first diamond created from the carbon of a celebrity or historical figure. Each Beethoven LifeGem will be a certified, high quality diamond between .5 and 1 carat in size.
“The Beethoven LifeGem offers us an opportunity to highlight new technology that captures carbon from strands of hair,” explains Greg Herro, chief executive officer of LifeGem Memorials. “However, most LifeGems will be created for families who choose burial, but still want a personal heirloom they can pass from generation to generation.”
PARTNER CONTRIBUTION
Families in the Knapp - Johnson Funeral Home area who will choose burial or want to create an heirloom while they are alive can contact a certified LifeGem partner with Knapp - Johnson Funeral Home.
The locks of hair used for Beethoven are authenticated and provided exclusively by John Reznikoff, president of University Archives and holder of the Guinness World Record for the largest and most valuable collection of celebrity and historical hair. Reznikoff’s collection also includes such figures as Napoleon, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
In the next six months, Beethoven’s carbon will be collected, purified into graphite, subjected to heat and pressure in a diamond press, and finally faceted into a LifeGem. After a worldwide tour of museums, the Beethoven LifeGems will be auctioned online and the proceeds will go towards creating LifeGems for military families.
Ranging from one-quarter to one carat, the LifeGem is certified by the world’s foremost gemologists trained by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). The LifeGem is produced in blue and yellow, and future options will include red.
More information about LifeGem is available on our resources page.