NEW MUMMY MOVIE MAY IMPACT MODERN DAY MUMMIFIERS

NEW MUMMY MOVIE MAY IMPACT MODERN DAY MUMMIFIERS

SALT LAKE CITY (Wireless Flash) -- This Friday's opening of the new "Mummy" movie may bring bad news to modern day mummy makers. According to Corky Ra, founder of a Salt Lake City organization that mummifies humans, the new Brendan Fraser movie contains such creepy crypt scenes that he thinks it will turn off many people to the joys of mummification. Ra, who has mummified 30 humans and 37 pets since 1975, currently has about 140 living clients who plan to be made into mummies when they die -- and one of them is Dodi Fayed's dad. The entire mummification process costs around $60,000 -- not including a crypt -- and takes about 6 months of embalming and wrapping. Ra says one advantage modern-day mummification has over ancient Egyptian methods is that it preserves all the tissue in your body, so it will be nice and fresh just in case you want to clone yourself in the future.

CONTACT: Corky Ra, ****1/2; Salt Lake City, UT; (801) 355-0137