The French Riviera town of Le Lavandou has banned death.* The French Riviera town of Le Lavandou has banned death. Anyone who doesn't have a reserved burial burial, disposal of a corpse in a grave or tomb. The first evidence of deliberate burial was found in European caves of the Paleolithic period. Prehistoric discoveries include both individual and communal burials, the latter indicating that pits or ossuaries were plot is now forbidden from dying within city limits. "I know it's absurd, but it's no less absurd than the court order which banned us from building a new cemetery cemetery, name used by early Christians to designate a place for burying the dead. First applied in Christian burials in the Roman catacombs, the word cemetery came into general usage in the 15th cent. on the grounds that the seaside Seaside. 1 City (1990 pop. 38,901), Monterey co., W Calif., on Monterey Bay, in a fruit region; founded 1887, inc. 1954. Its economy is based largely upon tourism. California State Univ. Monterey Bay is there, on the former site of Fort Ord. terrain where we want to build comes under rules protecting the environment," said Mayor Gil Bernardi. |
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