Diamond geezer
The family of a Blackpool man who died suddenly have had his remains turned into a diamond.
Mick Egan’s wife Susan decided she wanted a different kind of memorial after he died of a brain haemorrhage last year.
The stone took 24 weeks to create and arrived the day before daughter Celeste’s wedding – allowing her to go down the aisle with her father.
“We think he would have loved the idea,” she told BBC News.
“It was emotional but it was nice emotion because I was pleased that it had happened and that I could have something of my Dad to take down the aisle with me.”
The family wanted a unique way to remember Mr Egan and turned to an American company to create the synthetic diamond.
The process involves extracting carbon from the ashes of a loved one, before heating it to extreme temperatures to convert it into graphite.
Rough diamond crystal is then created in the special presses before being cut to the family’s specifications.
“We had to have a blue one because my husband’s eyes are blue. I never visualised that it would be so beautiful until it arrived,” said Mrs Egan.
“He is my diamond geezer now. It was the right thing to do and it just brings me so much comfort that I’ve got it now to last forever.”
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