Italian mayor forbids his residents from dying

Giulio Cesare Fava, the mayor of small town Falciano del Massico, located about 50 kilometres north of Naples, southern Italy, issued the order earlier this month stating, "it is forbidden for residents ... to go beyond the boundaries of earthly life, to go into to the afterlife".

So far only two elderly residents have disobeyed the edict, the La Stampa daily reported ....