Prohibition of dying
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Prohibition of dying is a political social phenomenon and taboo in which a law is passed stating that it is illegal to die, usually specifically in a certain political division or in a specific building.
The earliest case of prohibition of death occurred in the 5th century BC, on the Greek island of Delos; dying on Delos was prohibited on religious grounds.[1]
Today, in most cases, the prohibition of death is a satirical response to the government's failure to approve the expansion of municipal cemeteries. In Spain, one town has prohibited death;[2] in France, there have been several settlements which have had death prohibited;[3][4][5][6] while in Biritiba Mirim, in Brazil, an attempt to prohibit death took place in 2005.[7][8]
There is a falsely rumoured prohibition on recording deaths in royal palaces in the United Kingdom, for rather different reasons.[9][10]