General Electric Company

If in addition there is something tangible and that can be seen, the memory is more enduring. This catalan official, 74 years old, already retired, has signed a contract to Algordanza to leave well tied and well paid his last wish.If we join the discovery of the General Electric Company, at the end of 1954, of a system to manufacture synthetic diamonds for industrial use, have as a result the birth of Algordanza, souvenir in the Romansh language. Veit Brimer and his partner Rinaldo Willy, both with less than 40 years, a formula were possible to offer a new funeral service which in turn does not interfere in the traditions. Most of the polls come from families who want to save a precious souvenir of an acquaintance. But there are also decide before his death be cremated and diamantizado, a service that now also offer some life insurance companies. To do so will require inconvenient presses, 1,300 to 2,000 degrees centigrade and 70,000 atmospheres of pressure to this reality, says eluniverso.com why spend eternity under tierra, evaporated in smoke or? frozen?. The fact, that most deadly increasingly are decided by a more luxurious format, become diamond, thanks to a few thousand euros and a delicate chemical transformation practiced especially in Switzerland. There are all kinds of people, from truck driver to the Professor of philosophy, explains Rinaldo Willy, one of the co-founders of the company, in a laboratory where a fortnight of machines work without interruption.

An employee, with the eyes protected by a wide plastic glasses, works behind a line of yellow and black that the visitor is not entitled to franking, out of respect for the dead. 500 grams of ashes is enough to make a diamond while the human body leaving an average of 2.5 to 3 kilos, says the young Willy, for 28 years. Human remains are undergoing various metamorphoses by stages. .