The Norwegian town of Longyearbyen is forbidden by law to die





Longyearbyen - the largest settlement and the administrative center of the province of the Norwegian Svalbard (Spitsbergen archipelago). It is the northernmost settlement in the world with a population of over a thousand people.

The city has a law that prohibits dying in its territory. If someone is struck down by serious illness or has an accident with a potentially fatal outcome, the patient will be immediately forwarded by air or by sea to another part of Norway, where he will die. But even if the death happens in the city are buried corpse is still on the "mainland." Such measures were forced to come from behind that in the permafrost body did not decompose and attract the attention of predators such as polar bears.

Spitsbergen - Bear Country. Therefore, every student at a local university on the first day learning to shoot exclusively.

Source: ru.wikipedia.org

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