Nick Drainey's World View: French Mayor's Grave Warning: 'You'll Be Better Off Not Dead'
Scotland on Sunday › April 16, 2008
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The mayor of a village in south-west France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.See the full content of this document
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Nick Drainey's World View: French Mayor's Grave Warning: 'You'll Be Better Off Not Dead'
In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish".
It added: "Offenders will be severely punished."The mayor, who turned 70 on Wednesday and is standing for election to a seventh term, said he was forced to take drastic action aft...See the full content of this document
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