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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 02:54:19 EDT
Subject: Re: Modern mummies

A comment to message: #14007
From: Jan Coetzee <>

> Mummification is far pricier - $12 000 for the basic
>mummification process, plus $36 000 for the simplest
>bronze mummiform. Then there's the cost of shipping a
>body to Salt Lake City, about $5 000;

At that price, I don't see why to choose that.
Cryonics with CI is cheaper.
On a technical side, after six months in a liquid
solution, I guess there must not be much
molecular structure in the good shape. Freeze
drying (not a good solution) seems far better.

Yvan Bozzonetti.

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