Justice
This Week in Bans: Italian Town Outlaws Death
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Welcome back to our weekly look at what's been outlawed in cities across the world (last week's edition here):
• It is no longer legal to die in the southern Italian town of Falciano del Massico, population 3,700. Mayor Giulio Cesare Fava issued the antideath ordinance earlier this month to solve the problem of the town not having a cemetery. That poses the question: What has Falciano del Massico been doing with all its cadavers these past years? (Lumps in municipal parks should be treated with suspicion.) About the mandatory-immortality clause, the mayor had this to say to the Associated Press: "The ordinance has brought happiness. Unfortunately, two elderly citizens disobeyed."