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Fulcrum TV in Great Britan is advertising for a terminally ill volunteer to be mummified upon death. This will be done for a documentary on Egyptian mummification techniques. Afterwards the mummified body would be kept for 2 to 3 years to see if the mummification process was sucessful. During that time the remains would be exhibited in a museum. After that a funeral would be provided by the TV people. In the preceeding months they wish to interview the person and allow the viewers to get to know him or her. Other documentaries about death processes have been aired in the past. An autopsy was televised as well as an assisted suicide. It should make for interesting, if gruesome, TV.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242225/Channel-4-advertising-terminally-ill-person-volunteer-mummified-TV-show.html

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Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 11, 2010
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a volunteer for televised mummification! and they already showed an autopsy and an assisted suicide! wow. they show everything over there don't they?

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/11/10 at 09:05 PM

How dare you call CSI "crap"! You malign the good name of crap!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/12/10 at 11:04 AM

LIVE AUTOPSIES!! :ahhh:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/14/10 at 07:44 AM

oh thank goodness! i'd hate to see an autopsy done on a live corpse! 😝

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/14/10 at 02:19 PM

live corpse = zombie ... I think an autopsy on a zombie would be pretty interesting to watch, actually.

Posted by Nethie on 01/14/10 at 07:08 PM

outeast that's gross!! :lol:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/20/10 at 07:48 AM

Actually, I would have to agree with outeast. Sorry.

Posted by MohawkWarrior on 01/20/10 at 06:01 PM

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