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Prohibition of death[edit]
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I'm hoping to build this article up to good article status. All outside feedback and input is welcome and appreciated.
Thanks, Anthøny (talk) 20:07, 16 October 2008 (UTC) Comments:
- This is the first time I have heard of such a law, outside the urban legend that no one is ever declared dead within the boundaries of Walt Disney World. Clearly, forbidding death is ridiculous, and a thorough discussion about why these governments decide to pass such logic-less laws needs to be included. I think you need to find reliable information on the reasoning of the laws, the process of passing laws, and the sociological implications of them.
- Antiquity should appear first. After that, the locations of recently passed prohibitions.
- I would not consider these reliable sources: http://www.stiffs.com/backoct99.html, http://weirdglobenews.com/forbidden_to_die_because_of_lack_of_room.html, http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=759454. For GA status, you'll have to find better ones.
- Right now, the article reads as a nutty look at a nutty set of laws. It could read - and this is where you may be eligible for GA status - as a sociological study on why these places find it necessary to pass such laws, or what they were trying to accomplish in doing so. I just did a quick search in a legal database and in world publications within the past 2 years on "prohibition of death" and "illegal to die", and I didn't find much more than what there is here. Perhaps some more reliable sourcing, but nothing that was any deeper analytically. You may not be able to get this to GA right now. --Moni3 (talk) 16:44, 20 October 2008 (UTC)