ROME ( AP) — Since the start of the month it has been illegal to die in Falciano del Massico, a village of 3,700 people some 30 miles from Naples in southern Italy.
Mayor Giulio Cesare Fava issued the tongue- in- cheek decree because the village has no cemetery and it is feuding with a nearby town that has one — creating a logistical problem about what to do with the deceased.
“ The ordinance has brought happiness,” the mayor was quoted today as saying. “Unfortunately, two elderly citizens disobeyed.”
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