[Corsair]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/12/13/death.ban.ap/index.html



"Die at your own risk"

[Grey Wolf]

CNN picked it up? I'd only seen it on ananova before this, and that's a questionable source at best.

[neo_hermes]

wow, environmentalists sure are idiots and i feel sry for that villiage/city/municipality.

[Grey Wolf]

Yes and no. Some Enviromentalists are idiots. We do need to control our destruction of natural reasources though, so a blanket statement like yours is innately flawed.

[neo_hermes]

ok, yeah your right that not all environmentalist are idiots. the "environmental politicans(sp?word?)" are idiots how can you limit the cemetery's and not allow cremation, one or the other not neither. how the hell are you goin to get rid of all the dead bodies? bring them back to life and put them back to work? dig them back up, dig the graves deeper and stack them 10 caskets high, 45 deep?

EDIT: I'm just confused these people plus 20 other cities/villiages ran out of space in their cemet...and they are putting them under walkways. now that's just not right. though it was kinda pointless to make a law outlawing death.

[Ace]

Let's see, you'll ***** about the environmentalists but I garauntee that you'd ***** if you found out that cremated people were in the bananas from Brazil.

So yes, there are reasons why the current laws are emplaced. The last thing they need is a sensationalist 'cremated banana' scare.

[aldo_14]

ok, yeah your right that not all environmentalist are idiots. the "environmental politicans(sp?word?)" are idiots how can you limit the cemetery's and not allow cremation, one or the other not neither. how the hell are you goin to get rid of all the dead bodies? bring them back to life and put them back to work? dig them back up, dig the graves deeper and stack them 10 caskets high, 45 deep?

EDIT: I'm just confused these people plus 20 other cities/villiages ran out of space in their cemet...and they are putting them under walkways. now that's just not right. though it was kinda pointless to make a law outlawing death.

IT was an intentionally pointless law to protest at the regulations - didn't you read the article?

The article also describes how the area 'sits above the underground water source for about 2 million people in Sao Paulo'; hence why there is an issue with burying.  Would you like some freshly decomposed Eduardo in your morning cup of coffee? - I doubt it.

It's not explained why cremation is banned; i presume it's due to the protected forest and farmland.  AFAIK Cremation is not particularly popular in (predominantly Catholic) Brazil, though.

So what you're actually missing is that the issue is caused by measures to protect a) water supplies and b) grown food from contamination from decomposing bodies and cremated ashes respectively, not an intentional attempt to stop people being buried.

[Ghostavo]

This raises a point, supposing this civilization doesn't collapse in the next say, 5 thousand years, and if people keep burying their dead relatives, pets, whatever, etc... in "local cemiteries", isn't there going to be a shortage of space?

[aldo_14]

This raises a point, supposing this civilization doesn't collapse in the next say, 5 thousand years, and if people keep burying their dead relatives, pets, whatever, etc... in "local cemiteries", isn't there going to be a shortage of space?

IT would seem likely (perhaps, albeit, only in the context of where we would want to bury people rather than where we can).  Although natural decomposition might help to some degree, over that length of time.

[Turnsky]

i'm just wondering how they're gonna collect the fine, or prosecute people who infringe on said law 

community service is gonna be pointless, and jail time might get smelly if not kept in a fridge/meatlocker

[aldo_14]

i'm just wondering how they're gonna collect the fine, or prosecute people who infringe on said law

They're not.  Says that in the article, too........