For anyone who always wanted to be on TV, but never really made it, you’ve got one more chance — assuming you’re dying.

British station Channel 4 is accepting applications with an incredibly morbid and bizarre show about how to mummify a human body.

According to the Daily Mail Dr. Gunther von Hagens is behind the TV documentary.

Hagens, the quirky anatomist behind Body Works exhibit, an on-air assisted suicide and the first televised autopsy, hopes to challenge views on death by taking viewers back in time to an era when death was a major part of life.

But the mummification isn’t the only thing that will be featured on the show as production company Fulcrum TV’s Richard Belfield told the Independent newspaper.

‘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.’

This sounds like something that would never happen, let alone make its way to the U.S. in any form but a torrent. It’s sad really, I would much rather watch someone be mummified than keep up with the Kardashians or see Brett Michaels mow down a troop of sluts. Alas, I’ll be watching it on the Channel 4 site when and if it does come out.

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