""I started to get emails from all kinds of people asking if I could glaze pieces of pottery with their loved ones' remains," he told the WSJ. Unfortunately, dealing with the flood of requests helped Crowe realize that pottery wasn't a great avenue for scaling a business, as it only uses a fraction of a person's dusty leftovers. He ended up revamping his enterprise, coming up with Parting Stones' "solidification service," which begins at $1,195 for pets and $2,495 for humans."
"Specifically, Crowe started off blending cremated ashes into his pottery works. His first item, he told the paper, was a mug, made with human bones from retired medical cadavers. Holding the coffee cup for the first time wasn't a dramatic experience, he recalls; instead, "it was just normal.""
""Our solidification service for an adult [human] returns the full amount of remains as an average of 40-80+ 'stones,'" the Parting Stone website vows."
Parting Stone is a San Francisco company that transforms cremated remains into smooth white rocks and pottery-inspired keepsakes. The founder, Justin Crowe, began experimenting after his grandfather's 2014 death, combining pottery techniques with ashes and even creating a mug from cadaver bones. Early pottery pieces generated social media interest and customer requests to incorporate loved ones' remains. Crowe pivoted from pottery to a scalable 'solidification service' that returns the full amount of remains as dozens of stones. Prices start at $1,195 for pets and $2,495 for humans, with fish producing one or two stones.
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