There is a Town in Norway where is illegal to die.

[Rick Sanchez]

 

The residents of the small Norwegian town of Longyearbyen are banned from dying in Longyearbyen.

 

The town’s graveyard stopped accepting new inhabitants 70 years ago, after it was discovered that the permafrost prevented the bodies from following the normal decomposition process and were instead remaining perfectly preserved. Longyearbyen is located on an island between Norway’s coastline and the North Pole and suffers almost unbearably low temperatures during the cold season. Since the graveyard is closed for business, people who are near death are transported to other parts of the country in order to be put to rest in a different cemetery.

A few years ago a group of scientists decided to conduct a study on the permafrost phenomenon which preserves the corpses in the graveyard. They examined tissue from a person who died in the tow, and found that his body had preserved the Influenza virus since his death in a 1917 epidemic.

 

So... does your city or country have any weird laws in place?

[U R Messy AF]

 

Somehow I find it hard to believe that's what the law actually says.

[multifandom_af]

TL;DR: It's not illegal to die there it's just there are laws in place which prevent people from being buried there because permafrost prevents bodies from decaying post-mortem (which in turn allows illnesses to survive indefinitely).

[youtrieditduh]

I live in Norway and I never heard of this before

[Shika-Hime]

What are they gonna do, lock corpses up in cells?

[Grape Soda]

So where do they put the bodies that do die unexpectedly?

Why would you live in a town where a freaking polar bear can eat you omg

[Wookookie]

Interesting.

[Rick Sanchez]

TL;DR: It's not illegal to die there it's just there are laws in place which prevent people from being buried there because permafrost prevents bodies from decaying post-mortem (which in turn allows illnesses to survive indefinitely).

 

Pretty much.

 

What are they gonna do, lock corpses up in cells?

So where do they put the bodies that do die unexpectedly?

Why would you live in a town where a freaking polar bear can eat you omg

 

they send the bodies to Mainland Norway, i think. 

and what do you mean?! polar bears are cute!

 

 

awwn! see, totally cute!

 

 

[SmallWorldBigHeart]

Um. Can we all just remember the Spanish influenza was a pandemic with extremely high mortality rates. It is known to be one of the deadliest pandemics in human history; approximately 20-40 million lives were lost.

 

The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News). An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby). 1918 would go down as unforgettable year of suffering and death and yet of peace. As noted in the Journal of the American Medical Association final edition of 1918:

 

"The 1918 has gone: a year momentous as the termination of the most cruel war in the annals of the human race; a year which marked, the end at least for a time, of man's destruction of man; unfortunately a year in which developed a most fatal infectious disease causing the death of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Medical science for four and one-half years devoted itself to putting men on the firing line and keeping them there. Now it must turn with its whole might to combating the greatest enemy of all--infectious disease," (12/28/1918).

https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

 

 

I understand respecting the body but burn the body. There should not be a preserved body with one of the deadliest infectious diseases just waiting for human err or human maliciousness.

 

FYI BANNING CATS?! F— that. Banning cats is just one too many bans.