Stephen Fry is the host. Seriously. It's the best.

Hey! So I wanted to share with the class just how I knew about the Buddhist Self-mummification. I know, most people don't really find it necessary to share the roads that led them to the odds and ends of information gathering in their brains but this is just too cool, I feel I need to share. I love it that much.

I'm sure a bunch of you have heard of the British show QI. It stands for Quite Interesting because that is all that matters to them. You don't merely gain points for right answers and lose points for wrong answers, you get points for being interesting and lose them by being predictable. It is very common for the panellists all to end up with points in the negative numbers. But that's what makes it so fun! Stephen Fry is the host and Alan Davies his recurring guest every week, all the other panellists are different each episode.

Anyways, I was re-watching some episodes for the one that had the Buddhist mummification in it because I told one of the members of that group that I would find it and maybe they could put it somewhere on the site. There probably aren't too much mentions of that sort of practice in popular culture so it would be a cool link! This episode turned out to be a gold mine for this class! Not only does it have the mummification, it also includes the creative coffins that Meredith talks about in her blog from Ghana, and even cemetery memorial symbolism. So good and so hilarious:

Enjoy!