French village bans death

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/French_village_bans_death_03062008.html

The mayor of a French village has issued a decree banning residents from dying in his territory unless they own a spot in the overcrowded cemetery.

"It is forbidden for any person not having a plot in the cemetery ... to die on the territory of the village," the mayor of the southwestern village of Sarpourenx wrote in a decree that warned of "severe punishment" for offenders.

Mayor Gerard Lalanne told AFP he had taken the radical measure to protest against a legal ruling preventing him from enlarging the burial ground in the village of 260 people. "The first dead person to come along, I'll send him to the state's representative," he said.

Lalane said he had been inspired by the mayor of another French village, Cugnaux, who had also outlawed death as a protest last year and who thus won the right to enlarge the village's cemetery.

[xchrom]

1. lol -- that is wonderful -- nt

[InvisibleTouch]

2. After thousands of years of human history...

...a village mayor stumbles upon the secret of immortality. And here we were all along trying to exercise and eat right and find the magic medical formula. Who knew it would be so easy?

[tachyon]

3. I hate to imagine the penalty for breaking that law

:-)

[walldude]

6. LOL! Thats going in for a Duzy...

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[rpannier]

7. I guess that's how Shangri-la came to be

The mayor outlawed death and they just stopped dying

[provis99]

4. I can see the protests against the town now

"Everybody gather in Cugnaux! We're going to have a die-in!"

[alittlelark]

5. Time to move there!

Immortality due to reduced finances!

[rpannier]

8. They say at the rate the economy is going in this country

No one will be able to afford to die.

Americans will all owe too much money

[alittlelark]

9. I'll die when I die... I'll be cremated by the Neptune Society (cheap)

I will instruct that my remains be spread in places that conservatives deem 'HOLY'.



Reagans grave....Wall Street.....



I'll do what I can to F%&(^%*&^ their SH&^%(*&^%T all up.

[krispos42]

10. "If you die, I'll shock you back to life and kill you myself!!!"

swore the mayor. :-)

[Thothmes]

11. I wonder how he will punish those that ignore the decree.