Lab-grown diamonds made with cremation ashes are just one way people are honoring their loved ones.
When Alyx Carson’s father was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020, she left her nursing job in Austin, Texas, and flew to California to be with him. Soon after her arrival, they talked about what was ahead: She told him she would like to have his ashes made into a diamond.
He began to cry, she recalled recently from her home in Austin. “He was so honored,” she said. “He loved the idea. He said, ‘You would do that for me?’”
Ms. Carson is among the growing number of people buying contemporary versions of mourning jewelry,
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