Italian village bans citizens from dying…

This is possibly the strangest thing we’ve read all day, but a small Italian village has banned its residents from dying.

Yep, if you kick the bucket in the tiny community of Falciano del Massico, then technically you’re breaking the law.

The Associated Press reports that since the start of the month, it has been illegal to die in Falciano del Massico, a tiny village just outside Naples in Southern Italy. At present the area has a population of 3,700 – and none of them are allowed to die.

Why was such a bizarre law put in place? Well Giulio Cesare Fava, the Mayor of the village, issued the decree because right now the village itself has no cemetery, and it is currently in the middle of a feud with a neighbouring town that does have one.

So basically, because of this fight, there’s  nowhere to put the deceased of Falciano del Massico. Dilemma.

Despite the fact that none of them are allowed to die, the villagers remain relatively content, according to the Mayor anyway. Then again, he probably made happiness compulsive too.

“The ordinance has brought happiness,” he said, speaking to a local newspaper.

“Unfortunately two elderly citizens disobeyed,” he added.

Elderly people tend to do that when they get to a certain age Mr Mayor…

Anyway, we wonder what’s going to happen to anyone else who dies? Will the village build a cemetery or will they patch things up with the other village that HAS a cemetery? More importantly will they actually bury people or just try and flush them down the loo or something?

We’ll keep you updated…