FARK.com: (6650524) Dying man agrees to be mummified for TV documentary. Details of show still under wraps

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22 Comments (+0 »)

Uncle Wiggly

2011-10-16 11:18:22 PM

Great headline. +1

/That's a wrap!

abkaiser

2011-10-16 11:26:40 PM

FTA: "Has TV gone too far this time?"

Has it gone too far... in using a willing volunteer for science education? That's really the kind of TV they complain about?

In that case, I've got a big problem with Mythbusters. They test so many gun myths, I think that show just glorifies violence.

ArkAngel

2011-10-16 11:27:38 PM

I call brain-hook duty!

Weaver95

2011-10-16 11:33:54 PM

I wouldn't mind being mummified after death. I'd want my cats mummified too tho, so they could come with me into the afterlife. And of course several fark trolls would have to be entombed with me as servants.

so sayth AmumRa/weaver95! let it be done!

fickle floridian

2011-10-17 12:09:41 AM

Daddy unavailable for comment.

ksdanj

2011-10-17 12:43:05 AM

Does he have a condo made of stone-a?

PreMortem

2011-10-17 12:59:51 AM

I'd like to have my corpse eaten by vultures for a tv documentary. can I get paid now?
Even if I can't get paid, can I have that arranged?
If not vultures, hyenas.
Maggots might have to be time lapsed.

/just don't want to be trapped in a box underground forever

dopeydwarf

2011-10-17 01:10:31 AM

RexTalionis

2011-10-17 01:59:15 AM

PreMortem: I'd like to have my corpse eaten by vultures for a tv documentary. can I get paid now?
Even if I can't get paid, can I have that arranged?
If not vultures, hyenas.
Maggots might have to be time lapsed.

/just don't want to be trapped in a box underground forever

I've always wanted to have my corpse cut up into pieces and then have the pieces couriered in uncooled containers to people I don't like.

ultraholland

2011-10-17 02:10:11 AM

If ancient aliens aren't real then why is this happening now?

Lukeonia1

2011-10-17 05:11:24 AM

FTA: "Has TV gone too far this time?"

Seems to me we crossed that bridge way back in 2006. I'll take science and boobs over gore and drama any day.

PreMortem: just don't want to be trapped in a box underground forever

Agreed. Plastination has its virtues... Maybe plastinate me whole and then slice me up into really thin sheets for display in museums. Ooh! Or hang all the sheets in order in a single exhibit, so folks can flip through me like a book!

psychosis_inducing

2011-10-17 05:26:19 AM

abkaiser: using a willing volunteer for science education

Came to say this, happy to say someone else also saw it in TFA.

LavenderWolf

2011-10-17 06:28:09 AM

LavenderWolf

2011-10-17 06:28:44 AM

LavenderWolf: PreMortem: I'd like to have my corpse eaten by vultures for a tv documentary. can I get paid now?
Even if I can't get paid, can I have that arranged?
If not vultures, hyenas.
Maggots might have to be time lapsed.

/just don't want to be trapped in a box underground forever

I want my skull to be encased in glass.

Pyrex glass! In a perfect sphere, possible only in microgravity environments.

ugarte

2011-10-17 07:02:14 AM

abkaiser: FTA: "Has TV gone too far this time?"

Has it gone too far... in using a willing volunteer for science education? That's really the kind of TV they complain about?

In that case, I've got a big problem with Mythbusters. They test so many gun myths, I think that show just glorifies violence.

In case you haven't realized yet, when a headline has a yes or no question in it, the answer is always no.

For example, the headline for an article about some guy trying to prove that aliens exist and visit Earth is likely to be something like "Do aliens exist?." The truth is boring, blatant lies are relegated to papers that claim Bigfoot is one of their editors, and if there are hard facts in the article they can just state the truth.

Questions in headlines are for sensational journalism and those articles can be safely ignored.

/Apparently there is even a blog about it. http://blogs.independent.co.uk/tag/headline/

wildcardjack

2011-10-17 07:44:00 AM

I've seen this done before, but I don't think it was in HD.

There's a lot of room for redoing things in HD that have been done before. And with a modern budget for CGI and whatnot.

groppet

2011-10-17 10:39:05 AM

Hey Id do it just build me an awesome tomb as well with boobie traps and treasure

IntotheAbyss

2011-10-17 11:09:49 AM