Do you know there are places that you are banned from dying? Yea I know it’s absurd but it makes sense when you know where and why.
Longyearbyen on Norway’s distant Arctic island Spitsbergen, is one area where dying has been banned since 1950. This was because some corpses in a local graveyard were not decomposing because of the cold.
In fact live samples of the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic of the Spanish flu were extracted years later.
So today people approaching death in the area are flown to the mainland for their final days.
