The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsHow Dare You Die
I don't know what some politicians are thinking.
A mayor in Brazil is trying to make it illegal for citizens to die because the town's only cemetary is full.
He wants to have a law stating that relatives of the deceased would incur a fine or jail time. The law would also make it an offence to not look after one's health proplerly.
It is said that the town has no way of building a new cemetary or expanding on the present one, and that 89% of the town is river and the remainder is protected tropical jungle.
So, in Brazil, they are having a problem of finding places to lay the deceased to rest because they are either covered by rivers or protected jungles, eh.
I don't see how jail time woudl reduce the problem, though. Perhaps the fine will help if they put the money towards building a vertical cemetary, but jail time? What's that good for?
I'm sorry, but if I were a relation, I'd be chucking my family into the river when their time came. Heck, I'd be going to jail anyhow. Might as well have fun with it.
Comments
Sounds like they need to start cremating some people.
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That law is rediculous, how would putting the relatives of the deceased in jail deter people from dying? Instead they should put the deceased in jail.
Posted by: Diana Crabtree | December 13, 2005 12:22 PM
I think I know where there'd be a good place to start a taxidermy.
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December 13, 2005 03:01 PM
Now this guy is bright, innovative and rational. Quick, fast track his immigration papers the liberals have a few weak candidates he could replace.
Posted by: AsISeeIt | December 13, 2005 04:21 PM
Maybe he's trying to build a constituency? After all, if death is illegal, then zombies (even the stationary kind) can still vote, right?...
Posted by: LDH | December 14, 2005 10:07 AM