Wanted: volunteer to become mummy on TV

[L. Coyote]

Wanted: volunteer to become mummy on TV
By Arifa Akbar - 4:00 AM Tuesday Jan 12, 2010 - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/television/news/article.cfm?c_id=339&objectid=10619664


After the terminally ill person is turned into a mummy, the film-makers want to display the body in a museum.

They've had the first televised autopsy and the first on-screen assisted suicide. The latest wheeze to challenge the British public's attitudes to dying comes from Channel 4, which is appealing to the terminally ill to find someone to donate their body to be mummified for a reality television show - then displayed in a museum for two years.

Among all the sobering possibilities of how to spend your last days is one offered by a film production company on behalf of Channel 4. It is advertising in spirit magazines for volunteers in search of celluloid immortality.

The ad reads: "We are currently keen to talk to someone who, faced with the knowledge of their own terminal illness and all that it entails, would nonetheless consider undergoing the process of ancient Egyptian embalming."

The proposal from production firm Fulcrum TV has received development funds from Channel 4. Documentary-makers are working with a scientist who claims to have unlocked the secrets of the mummification process .....

[Canuckistanian]

1. Why, that's not creepy at all

Although I wouldn't want the job of scooping out the brains through a nostril.

Besides, mummification is not a great mystery. The trick is to dry out the body before natural bacterial and fungal processes can decompose the flesh. The Egyptians had the natural advantage of a very dry environment.

[hlthe2b]

2. They ought to at least provide the means to entomb them...

in a manner befitting an Egyptian Pharoh.

[Canuckistanian]

3. They want to exhibit the body

But yes, there should be a respectful burial offered to the family when the shows are over.

[Historic NY]

4. Damn I thought it was FOX's new gig for Sarah.

[L. Coyote]

7. Why this got posted did not elude everyone! LOL

It is much funnier in the current news context, thinking of a well-preserved Palin.

[ddeclue]

5. How about the show's producer voluteers to go first?

:puke:

[Forkboy]

6. I'd do it.

:)

[L. Coyote]

8. Well done Forkboy.

Been wanting to say that :rofl: