But still the father went ahead with the idea of creating something precious, indestructible, and beautiful out of such a tragic and terrible accident.
This is the first case of its kind in Italy that a father got his son's remain converted into diamond, so then he can keep him with the family forever.
The young son, killed in a car crash earlier this year, had already been buried in his hometown of Treviso, in northern Italy, when his 55-year-old dad came up with the idea.
Remembrance diamonds' are created by filtering and refining the carbon found in cremated ashes, then secured in a chamber, where intense pressure and a temperature similar to that of a volcano are applied, creating a synthetic diamond, ‘The Local' reported.
According to the reports the process of converting ashes into remembrance diamonds can cost as much as $18,000( Rs 11.14 lakhs).
