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To: Mike 2.0 who wrote (16246)	9/22/2000 2:21:55 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

French Town Bans Death news.excite.com Updated 11:56 AM ET September 22, 2000 PARIS (Reuters) - The small French Riviera resort town of Le Lavandou has banned death -- to anyone who doesn't have a burial plot in the local cemetery, anyway. Mayor Gil Bernardi has issued a municipal decree which declares: "It is forbidden to anyone who does not have a burial plot to die within town limits." "I know it's absurd but it's no less absurd than the court order which banned us from building a new cemetery on the grounds that the seaside terrain where we want to build comes under rules protecting the environment" he told Reuters. Bernardi said his town had no more room in its small cemetery. But it urgently needed a new one since nearly a third of Le Lavandou's 5,508 residents were aged over 65. "I issued the decree yesterday hoping for official attention," Bernardi said Thursday. "No one has died since then and I hope it stays that way."