To dead persons here are not glad: in this city it is officially forbidden to die and bury people

There are corners on our planet where the death is forbidden by the law! Though such restrictions are not so frequent and not always possess logic. In most cases on close relatives of the dead the penalty for death on these forbidden lands is imposed. One of the most outstanding and known examples represents the small settlement Longyearbyen, being in the territory of Svalbard archipelago. The owner of the blog told about it on the Zen platform. It is not enough inhabitants, about 1000 people. The settlement Longyearbyen received the nickname "city of polar bears" because of a large number of these animals living in it...