For all the advances claimed by medical science, it turns out that there is a political solution to death after all.
Gil Bernardi, "The mayor of a French Mediterranean town, faced with a cemetery “full to bursting,” has banned local residents from dying until he can find somewhere else to bury them. "
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"Bernardi said most locals had obeyed the edict so far, but he was desperately trying to find a resting place for a homeless man who had recently passed away in the town.
“Initially, the decree has been remarkably well followed,” the mayor said. "
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1361017
This opens up a whole new way of resolving many of the problems in the world’s trouble spots. Who needs a truce in the Middle East. We just get Arafat and Sharon to issue bans on their local residents from dying!!!