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It’s forbidden to be buried in Longyearbyen,
Norway The town’s only cemetery closed over
70 years ago because it’s so cold that bodies
previously buried there have never been decomposed
and some still carry traces of an influenza
virus that caused an epidemic in 1917.
Burying dead bodies is prohibited in Longyearbyen, Norway.
The town’s only cemetery closed 70 years ago.
This is because the cold climate prevented the corpses from decomposing, so the virus from the 1917 Spanish flu still remained in some of them.