Still looking for volunteers for mummification TV documentary
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On April of last year I posted a solicitation from a London based television company looking for terminally ill patients willing to be mummified like an ancient Egyptian after they die of course, for a scientific documentary: You have to die to play this role
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Channel 4 seeks terminally-ill volunteer to be mummified in TV documentary
Channel 4 looks set to become embroiled in another taste row after backing a project which seeks to mummify a terminally-ill volunteer for a TV documentary.
The body of the candidate selected to be embalmed could then end up being displayed in a museum.
Channel 4 and production company Fulcrum TV have advertised in magazines for possible candidates to volunteer.
The advert reads: ‘We are currently keen to talk to some one who, faced with the knowledge of their own terminal illness and all that it entails, would nonetheless consider undergoing the process of an ancient Egyptian embalming.’
Channel 4 seeks terminally ill patient to be embalmed
The programme will explore the mysteries of ancient Egyptian embalming, which was believed would help people reach the afterlife.
It is understood the project – which has been proposed by production company Fulcrum TV – is in its very early stages and may not actually be made.
It had been suggested – although it was not obligatory – that the body be placed in a museum exhibition to enable people to understand the mummification process.
Now you can be mummified just like the Egyptians
We’ve had the first televised real 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.
Documentary-makers are working with a scientist in the North of England who claims to have unlocked the secrets of the mummification process.
Channel 4 confirmed it had contributed a nominal amount of funds to Fulcrum TV to help with development. This sum typically pays for a producer to look into the research and assess the programme’s viability.
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