如果你已经病入膏肓，或者重度怀疑人生，反正就是‘不想活了’的话。除了自杀之外，你想不想做点更有意义的事情，例如变成一个木乃伊。说不定几百年后，还能通过神迹复活危害人间啥的。不要以为这是在骗人，德国科学家Gunther von Hagens 正联合英国Channel 4 电视频道，准备按照古埃及的方法制作一个真正的木乃伊，所以他们现在很需要这样的原意死后献身的自愿者。

注意，是死后才被制作，不是把你活活的弄死。同时整个制作甚至以后的开棺解剖过程都将排成纪录片呈现给观众。同时也有参与的英国科学家表示他们已经完全破解了古埃及木乃伊的防腐技术，现在万事俱备就差一个尸体了。

理论自愿者也将获得一笔丰厚的遗产，虽然新闻没有具体提及，所以，该贴也可以当做致富信息来看。

注：中文内容源自煎蛋网。

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.

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.

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.'

An English scientist claims to have unlocked the secrets of mummification. His efforts at recreating the work of Egyptians will be the subject of the documentary.

Embalming was a common death ritual for 3,000 years, when some cultures believed it was necessary preparation for the afterlife.

The Egyptians were able to 'mummify' bodies for longer than any other civilisation, and are believed to have used resins found only in Burma - more than 4,000 miles from Egypt - in the process.

Fulcrum TV's Richard Belfield told a reporter from the Independent newspaper, posing as a volunteer: 'We would like to film with you over the next few months to understand who you are and what sort of person you are so the viewers get to know you and have a proper emotional response to you.

'It may sound rather macabre but we have mummified a large number of pigs to check that the process worked and it does. We have lined up scientists to support the project and found a place approved by the Human Tissue Authority where the mummification would take place.

'Afterwards one thought was – though this is not obligatory – to put the body in an exhibition in a proper museum so people can properly understand the mummification process. That is something we would be flexible about.

'But we would like to keep the body for two or three years to see that the mummification process worked. Then the normal funeral arrangements could be made.'

He said payment would not be made, but that costs would be covered.

Mr Belfield added: 'The Egyptians were extremely clever organic chemists. Some of the materials they used came from as far afield as Burma and the Far East. One resin they used we know only existed in Burma. One thing we want to explore is how they developed their knowledge of chemistry.'

A Channel 4 spokesman told the newspaper that it had given development funds to Fulcrum. These are used to look into the project's viability. The spokesman added: 'We’re fascinated by the research that is taking place. If the scientists are able to find a willing donor we’d be interested in following the process.

'And if you were to question why we were interested we’d say "If the scientists have solved one of the ancient world’s most enduring mysteries [the process of mummification] it would give us a unique insight into science and Egyptian history and may well prove to have other significant benefits for medical science." '

n recent years there have been several programmes which seek to challenge views on death.

Eight years ago, Dr von Hagens performed an autopsy in front of a theatre audience in East London, the first in public for 170 years.

Wearing a black hat throughout, he cut up the body of a 72-year-old former chain-smoking German alcoholic in front of 500 people.

Before he carried it out he was warned by the Department of Health that he would be breaking the Anatomy Act by holding a post-mortem examination on unlicensed premises.

The autopsy was shown on Channel 4 and resulted in 130 complaints.