$ 0 0 Alan Billis, Modern Mummy (Source: Huffington Post). “He may not spend the afterlife in a pharaoh’s tomb, but for Alan Billis, that was never the point. The 61-year-old taxi driver from England made his decision–to be mummified after death–for science. After being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, Billis, a father of three, responded to an advertisement seeking a volunteer to be mummified” – via Huffington Post.