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Man donates his body to be mummified

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A taxi driver from Torquay in southwest England has become the first person in 3,000 years to be mummified.

Alan Billis, who died in January, volunteered to undergo the procedure - which a scientist has been working on recreating for years - after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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