Programs aren't the problem so much as what you're going to do the printout on. If you want, you could just do multiple pages off of a standard printer, but it wouldn't look as good because you'd have to overlap them. If you want a single, solid printout, then you're going to need a bigger printer--unless you want to blow a few hundred bucks minimum, it'd be easiest to just go to a copy shop and have them do the printout for you.
As for the picture itself, your biggest problem will be resolution. On a computer monitor, 76 dpi is fine. In fact, that's about the limit of most displays, so higher dpi doesn't matter. But when you're blowing it up to life size, you need some SERIOUS resolution increases.
Now, I've got a nice digital camera that my mom uses as a digital arts teacher at her high school. It's pretty high-end, 13 megapixel if I remember right, though it could only be 11. If I set that up and take a picture, it'll give me a nice, extremely high-resolution picture, but nowhere near high enough to blow up to life-size.
The only way I can think of to do that would be to take several pictures and collage them together. Otherwise it's just going to be a pixelated mess.
Program-wise, use Photoshop. It's really the only option for photo editing and management. The CS3 beta just came out too, it's a free download, though it's limited to a two-day trial unless you play around with it. Specifically, if you go to Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop CS3/AMT and change the name of the file application.sif file to application1.sif or application.sif_ or basically anything but it's original name. After that it'll run without asking to register or all that jazz.
EDIT: Dang, I left my post and went to answer the phone, came back and posted but Seeker beat me to it.
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