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TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification

Posted by samzenpus on from the wrap-it-up dept.

Terminal illness got you down? Does your future seems bleak? Channel 4 and production company Fulcrum TV would like to brighten your day by making you the star of an upcoming documentary. They would like to offer you the chance to be mummified on TV and maybe even displayed in a museum afterward. An advertisement for the project 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."

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  1. Re:Good. by c6gunner · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So it's not just me that sees shows like Mythbusters as an intellectual version of Jackass.

    I'm pretty sure that was their intent, so no, you're definitely not the only one.

    Or, as Teller once put it when asked about their greatest achievement on "Bullshit":

    "Our greatest achievement is presenting skepticism to people with the assistance of obscenity and naked breasts and genitals."

    I'm sure Adam Savage would give a similar answer; just replace "obscenity and naked breasts and genitals" with "explosions and goofy antics".