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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geoarrge" data-source="post: 7206398" data-attributes="member: 6801238">I tend to think that the gold value required for the diamond is a shorthand representing some actual minimum combination of weight and purity -- in other words, a 500 gp diamond doesn't become usable for resurrection through the act of rich widows having a bidding war over it.Raise dead, resurrection, and clone all specify a single diamond of the required value, so the market for small diamonds would probably not be too vicious.  Even supposing a city with actual leveled clerics at the temple, it's going to be a narrow set of situations where someone can be caught in time for revivify.A big city temple might have its own morgue with a section reserved for corpses under gentle repose. The main constraining factor for capacity would be the number of times the cleric(s) can commit to casting gentle repose per day. Probably no more than half of their total 2nd level slots, which on a rotating schedule, supports that figure times 10 in preserved corpses.  One tricky question here is what they do when they are filled to capacity.  Do they kick the longest-sitting corpse out? Do they let rich families pay to keep their relatives in there indefinitely, even if that means turning others away? Or do they have other rules, like perhaps give preferential treatment to the youngest dead?</blockquote>