Whether you’d prefer to keep your loved ones with you as a rock, a diamond, a planter, or even a vinyl record, there’s a company out there that can help.

超过530万的人死于共同-19-包括超过超过的人800k在美国。在最糟糕的大流行期间,许多人不得不放弃纪念传统,而fun仪馆随着商业而超支。国家葬礼董事协会报告说,2021年的火葬会增加,据估计57.5%choosing cremation over burial. The Cremation Association of North America projects that number will rise to72.8%到2030年。

殡葬业产生s more than $16B per year -- making it an appealing one for new businesses. To ease the process of losing loved ones, deathcare startups are emerging that offer mourners both a way to memorialize the deceased and a practical answer to what to do with cremated remains.

ForEterneva, the most beautiful (and luxe) way to keep the deceased close is to turn their ashes into diamonds. Founded in 2017, the company uses carbon from cremated remains as the base material to create lab-grown diamonds. Customers can choose carat weight, color, and cut. For colorless diamonds, prices range from $3k for a .1-carat stone, to $50k for 3 carats. The process takes 7-10 months to complete.

Eterneva raised a $10m Series A funding round in July 2021 -- a milestone that co-founder Adelle Archer says makes the company the 2nd-ever deathcare startup to raise a $10m round. Archer says the company’s annual revenue is in the “high seven figures” and they’ve seen triple-digit YoY growth. She also notes the company has resonated with TikTok users, amassing 1.2m followers.

“We learned that the diamond journey is just as important and powerful as the diamond you get in the end because it’s a celebration ritual of someone’s life,” Archer says. “Eighty-two percent of our customers coming out on the other side report being in a better place with their grief than those who did nothing at all.”

Group of Diamonds照片由Eterneva提供

According to New York City grief counselor吉尔·科恩(Jill Cohen), memorializing loved ones with physical objects is an immensely effective coping tool. “When someone dies, these companies offer a step further than saying, ‘my loved one is alive in my heart’ -- it actually brings the mourner closer to the person when they are no longer physically here.”

Parting Stone,在2019年大流行的前一年成立,他对受到库维德(Covid)影响的客户的感激之情。该初创公司通过使用陶瓷过程来创造光滑的石头:精炼灰烬,直到形成类似粘土的材料,在窑炉中固化并抛光。该过程需要8周,费用为695美元。

Part Stone的创始人Justin Crowe表示,该公司在2021年看到了130%的Yoraybet电子竞技yrevenue增长,迄今为止已经为2.8万家家庭提供了服务。他还指出,他们要完成的目标的重要部分是使用整个人类遗体 - 使石头成为火化遗体的替代品,并使人们免于处理灰烬的负担。

“There are 70m people in the United States living with cremated remains,” Crowe says. “When I talked to people about that, they would tell me that they were embarrassed to have the urn out when they brought dates home, or they were scared to scatter the ashes because they’d seen too many movies where the wind blows the wrong way. We wanted to make a new form of human remains that was more comfortable, and that’s what we did.”

在大流行的情况下,失去团体哀悼的仪式使死亡公司更具吸引力,而且通常是丧亲的消费者所必需的。

“All I kept hearing was that people couldn’t have a send-off and that a person’s life just ended with one person standing at a grave. And that made the mourning harder for them,” Cohen says. “The more you can do around the end of life, the more it eases the mourning.”

每个味道都有一个产品。和vinyly可以将您所爱的人的骨灰变成可玩的乙烯基唱片,Boyce Studiosmakes wooden urns that double as planters, and重新组合通过称为自然有机还原的过程将人类遗体转化为土壤。

对于压倒家庭成员,Solace是由2前耐克创建的设计师简化火葬过程的财务和后勤负担。以895美元的固定利率,该公司将在48小时内捡起尸体,葬礼raybet电子竞技,完成任何必要的备案,并将火化的遗体退还在临时性的urn中。

无论消费者选择的对象如何,死亡行业的增长都是人类个性和我们哀悼的多样性的一种证明。尽管世界面临着惊人的损失,但它也看到死亡行业的创新浪潮可能有望为那些受到它感动的人带来安慰。

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最初于2022年1月26日上午6:00 am,2022年1月26日更新