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Italian Mayor Releases Prohibition on…Dying?

In terms of history and beauty, very few countries can compare with Italy.

Italian Mayor Releases Prohibition on...Dying?

Rome's Colosseum (Photo: Network4Travel)

But that doesn’t mean it’s immune to the modern-day struggles of the rest of Europe.  A bad economy combined with socialist programs has left the country broke and desperate.

The latest in the plight of the Italians?  In one town, Falciano del Massico, the mayor has been forced to issue a tongue-in-cheek prohibition on dying, since his town and another are feuding over cemetery land.  The “ban” has been in effect since the start of the month.

“The ordinance has brought happiness,” Mayor Giulio Cesare Fava said Tuesday, “Unfortunately, two elderly citizens disobeyed.”

Falciano del Massico is located 30 miles outside of Naples, and has a population of 3,700 people.

Italian Mayor Releases Prohibition on...Dying?

Lake Falciano (Photo: In Campania)

Italy is famous for another land feud, which left the citizens of Naples knee deep in trash for years.  At the time, no one could agree on how to dispose of the trash (and the mafia‘s influence in the industry didn’t make it any easier).

Check out this EuroNews “No Comment” clip of Naples’ dilemma:

Comments (22)

  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:58pm

    Seeing the video of the Army cleaning up that much trash in the streets made me flash back to Jr High math teacher‘s stories back in the mid ’60s. He landed in Italy back in ‘44 and was in the fighting all the way up through the Italian boot. He told us how they could tell they were approaching the next town or city. They could smell it long before they got to it. I guess that not much has changed.

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  • ContinentalArmy
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:57pm

    Just Total Nonsense! Don’t these Idiots know that People Die when their time is Up! The two towns squabble over a cemetery and a landfill. WOW!

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    • nelbert
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:34am

      You did get the part that the prohibition on dying was given tongue-in-cheek, didn’t you?

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:48pm

    Let me guess You die which flaunts the Law…. You forfeit all your money and property.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:28pm

    ho.ok.ers shouldnt be advertising here

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  • Icnivad
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:27pm

    I propose a prohibition on: Breaking the Law. ‘Cause, of course, that’s totally gonna work. Derp.

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:18pm

    People sure are filthy animals. I can tell a man hasn’t been around for a couple hundred years. I’m sure God can figure out how to get rid of it all when most people are gone.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:20pm

      Oh I probably left you confused – that means you are just people, but not “Mankind.”

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:25pm

      Men don’t care about their environment in the abstract, and they put it out by the curb just to forget about it. But sooner or later you’ll be living in it. Sooner or later millions of tons of garbage from Japan is going to wash up on the west coast of America. Is that Carma or what?

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:59pm

    I was in Italy 25 years ago, the whole country shuts down for three hours a damn day, it’s bizarre… I‘m shocked it’s taken this long for them to broke…… And we aren’t far behind………

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    • Brooke Lorren
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 3:06am

      Then they take the entire month of August off… although when I was there they didn’t take three whole hours, some just shut down for an hour or two.

      I remember once my car broke down in August and I needed to have it towed to the repair shop. I had to wait until September to get it moved…

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:58pm

    Local cemetery must be holding a party…..at the undertaker’s expense.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 10:59am

      In the cemetary, How many bodies pile-up in front of the gates waiting to be buried that month??

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  • the_truth_or_not
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:51pm

    No they could just keep you clinically alive while they transport your body to the ‘other town. Hope it doesn’t stack up like the trash wars!

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:46pm

    Dang.

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  • Grasshopper42
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:45pm

    I hear folks are just dying to get into that cemetery . . .

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  • burnbabylon
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:44pm

    I’m waiting for a really “Green” legislature to repeal the laws of thermodynamics so that we can have 1000 mpg limos.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:36pm

    What is the penalty for the infraction, “Death”?

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