Longyearbyen may indeed be a mysterious town, but let us not disappoint you: it is not an old ancient secret that gives them 'immortality'.
No, it's here for the people forbidden by law to die – and all because of the cold weather. Longyearbyen is located on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, somewhere halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. It was supposed to be a small town one of the world's northernmost settlements, which does not see the sun's rays for several months of the year.
When, several years ago, local residents realized that they don't dismember corpses in the cemetery, in 1950 a law came into force prohibiting dying in this city. And this was not an exaggeration: when scientists exhumed the bodies of people who died of the flu pandemic in 1918, 80 years later they still managed to discover alive virus.
The inhabitants, who have therefore lived on this island all their lives, they cannot be buried here. Although there is also the possibility of cremation, most of the terminally ill are transported to mainland Norway, where they spend the rest of their days.
Jan Christian Meyer of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology said: "If you are close to death, we will do everything to bring you to land."
It's the same on this island there are not many births. Although they have a smaller hospital, expectant mothers are encouraged to fly to mainland Norway and give birth there.
Otherwise, also in Great Britain there is a place where by law you must not die - parliament.
