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Channel 4 (UK) seeks terminally-ill volunteer to be mummified in TV documentary
Daily Mail ^ | December 11, 2009 | Staff

Posted on 01/11/2010 11:40:19 AM PST by C19fan

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. If the project goes ahead it will follow a trail of programmes which seek to challenge views on death. Television audiences have been shown an autopsy, carried out by the controversial German anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens, and an on-screen assisted suicide.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: mummy
If they actually find a volunteer I think I would watch.
1 posted on 01/11/2010 11:40:20 AM PST by C19fan
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“an on-screen assisted suicide.”

next thing you know they’ll be turning people into little green crackers.


2 posted on 01/11/2010 11:43:21 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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“If the project goes ahead it will follow a trail of programmes which seek to challenge views on death.”

I hate—I HATE—weasely wording like that. That’s the sort of thing we always hear: It isn’t “gay propaganda,” it’s just “challenging stereotypes.” Etc.

They hope to get people to look forward to death? They want people to CHOOSE death?

If you have an agenda—spill it!


3 posted on 01/11/2010 11:44:35 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: C19fan

I’ve seen this done already on cable tv with the body of a convicted felon who donated his remains for this specific purpose.


4 posted on 01/11/2010 11:45:06 AM PST by cajuncow
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To: C19fan

They shouldn’t have a problem finding a good number of terminally ill patients. The NHS took care of that for them.


5 posted on 01/11/2010 1:12:58 PM PST by erikm88
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Just a few more shots of botox and he can have Pelosi! She will be so stiff they can stand her in a corner!


6 posted on 01/11/2010 1:19:40 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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