Mayor tells townspeople not to die: Cemetery is full.

[blue_slime]

He could have just told his townspeople to go with cremation instead.

[major tom]

The death penalty is illegal in France.

Thanks for killing it.

[Rayquarian]

In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish."

It added: "Offenders will be severely punished."

Apparently, he can bring them back to life and punish them.

[Riosan]

In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish."

It added: "Offenders will be severely punished."

Apparently, he can bring them back to life and punish them.

I would have worded it, "Violators will be shot", but that works too.