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December 14, 2005

"No More Dying"

A town in Brazil has a problem.

It has a full cemetery, can't build a new one or expand the existing, so the mayor decided on a novel solution - no more dying.

BIRITIBA MIRIM, Brazil (AP) -- There's no more room to bury the dead, they can't be cremated and laws forbid a new cemetery. So the mayor of this Brazilian farm town has proposed a solution: outlaw death.

Mayor Roberto Pereira da Silva's proposal to the Town Council asks residents to "take good care of your health in order not to die" and warns that "infractors will be held responsible for their acts."

The law is actually a protest against the federal government's refusal to allow them to expand their cemetery. Nice to see that we aren't the only people in the world constrained by annoying federal regulation.

Posted by slublog at December 14, 2005 08:14 AM

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