PETA is sure to love this one: Taking bizarre stunts to the extreme, the Discovery Channel is airing a special episode of its cult hit show "Eaten Alive" on Dec. 7, featuring a man being eaten alive by an anaconda and making it back out again by slaying the snake or killing himself in the process, Huffington Post reports.

According to Entertainment Weekly, naturalist and wildlife filmmaker Paul Rosolie will don a custom-built snake-proof suit and douse himself in pig's blood, Stephen King's "Carrie" style, and then be consumed by the snake.

The Washington Post reports that Rosolie, whom oversees Tamandua Expeditions, a tourism initiative, volunteered to be devoured.

It seems he may have taken some advice from Luis Llosa's 1997 adventure-horror flick "Anaconda."

"You have to go head first," Rosolie instructs, a little too happy-go-lucky, in one of two of the promo clips.

Spoiler alert: Rosolie has been quite active on Twitter, so one can assume he lived to tell the tale. By the looks of it, he seems to be fastened to a device of some sort. Perhaps he was pulled out in the nick of time before the reptile digested him whole?

Regardless, some viewers and animal rights activists have already began protesting the show online, citing the disturbing images as well as concern for the welfare of the anaconda.

There's even a petition on Change.org requesting Discovery cancel the episode and its show.

"This is animal abuse to the highest degree and absolutely disgusting, and could kill the snake," the petition reads. "An adult green anaconda cannot fit the width of an adult man's shoulders into it's body."

However, upon requests to pull the plug on the show, Rosolie defended himself and the network.

"I understand that many people have questions," Rosolie wrote on his website. "All I can tell you now is that all my work is based around the fact that wildlife and ecosystems today, across the globe, are at a critical moment.

Rosolie then recommended criticizers to check out his book, "Mother Of God: One man's journey to the uncharted depths of the Amazon rainforest." 

"For those worried about animal cruelty, I invite you to research my work -- read my book," he continued.

A self-proclaimed advocate of animals' rights, Rosolie noted that anacondas and other snakes are being pouched or hunted and due, to habitat destruction, are becoming endangered.

"Then ask yourself: would this person ever hurt an animal?" he said.