The body of the body did not decompose due to the cold in Norway

A frozen town in Norway prohibits people from dying on the island to prevent dangerous disease due to the body never decomposing.

is a town with 2,000 inhabitants who mainly rely on coal mining in Norway's remote Svalbard Islands, according to Sun. This is the farthest town in the north and freezes permanently with the average temperature in February of -17 degrees C.

Longyearbyen is the farthest town in the north.(Video: YouTube).

The town government issued a ban on death on the island in 1950 when it discovered that bodies buried in permafrost beneath the local cemetery did not decay due to the cold weather, according to Half as Interesting.

This phenomenon poses a serious public health risk because 11 dead people were buried in the town during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that claimed the lives of 5% of the world's population.

The body buried beneath Longyearbyen town cemetery was not decomposed.(Photo: AFP).

Today, the seriously ill people in Longyearbyen are transported to the mainland to spend their final days and buried there. Spanish flu viruses are taken from a number of bodies on the island so researchers can learn to prevent a similar outbreak.

As a rule, the townspeople had to carry with them a rifle if they went out of bounds because the surrounding area was home to 3,000 polar bears. Cats are banned from farming in the town to protect the Arctic populations. The Sun sets on October 25 every year and does not grow above the horizon for 4 months afterwards.