mummification

In Japan the term refers to the practice of Buddhist monks observing asceticism to the point of death and entering mummification while alive.

Were mummies not usually aware of, and presumably consented, to mummification before death?

There was mummification to her hands and feet, the document said.

I do not understand this mummification thing, but I do understand the concept that death is a transition to other worlds.

Empirically, we're obviously way ahead of where humans were at the time of mummification, so I think it's a silly comparison anyways.

Nevertheless, in Egypt the viscera were removed before mummification.

After all mummification may in some cases have sufficiently preserved flesh to allow for cloning, but that's not a meaningful resurrection for the person or animal who died.

I curious because the mummification process changed drastically over time, and during the early Roman period was much less elaborate than 1000 years earlier.

So a 5,000+ year old practice of mummification of Egyptian Pharaohs is a prediction of a book written by people just a few hundred miles away, 1,400 years ago?

Arbitrarily low chances literally on level with egyptian mummification or worshipping a random god is definitely not something that should be sold to anyone (except as a novelty maybe).

Pointing and laughing is the right response, not trying to figure out why mummification in the Victorian era is a bad code smell for the mindset that produces it.

Bentham's mummification is a Brown M&Ms story.

Is it the same plant that was used for shokushinbutsu, the "self-mummification" practiced by Japanese monks?

But we could call it “mummification” for all I care – it does not alter any point I was making.

I'm not sure it's fair to say that anything about mummification was science based unless you're using the term very colloquially to just mean "what people thought was right".

Mummification was probably compatible with the best known "science" back then.

Mummification is for display, not preservation.