The city where you are forbidden to be born and die.

Longyearbyen is the capital of the Svalbard Archipelago, located in northern Norway, close to the North Pole. It is the northernmost capital of the entire planet. Here, temperatures are, of course, glacial for much of the year. The reason why he was forbidden to die since the 1950s. In the year 2000, scientists exhumed the bodies of people who died of a particularly serious flu in 1917, and even found particles of this virus during their analyzes. This deadly virus slept under the feet of Longyearbyen for a century, writes rador.

Nearly 70 years ago, leaders decided that no one should die in Longyearbyen or move. Therefore, patients in the terminal phase are transferred to Oslo, the Norwegian capital, which is located in the . . . 2.

000 km away. Logically, the city does not have a nursing home or a geriatric department. However, there is a cemetery that is still in operation, because people who want can be incinerated and buried here. But this solution would have little success, according to Slate,. There is no hospital in this polar city.

So there are no births and pregnant women are transferred to the continent one week ahead of time and return after a few weeks to ensure the survival of their children who are vulnerable to extreme weather conditions. But Longyearbyen is also a strange thing about rules: cats are forbidden here to preserve the wildlife, it is compulsory to go to any building, alcohol is rationalized because of the extremely low price, and people without work are not tolerated. In the face of extreme living conditions, the authorities demand that each person be able to handle their own needs. .