Dispensary Corner

HERE’S an innovative way to ensure people remain healthy make dying illegal, reports wn.com.

That’s exactly what they’ve done in the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen in the Arctic Svalbard Islands, where it has been illegal to pass on since 1950.

That was the year that authorities discovered bodies in the town were not decomposing because of the year-round deep freeze - meaning deadly viruses within the corpses could potentially reinfect the population if they thawed out.

Similar concerns have actually played out in Siberia, where in a 2016 heatwave an outbreak of anthrax was attributed to the thawing body of a reindeer killed by the virus in 1941.

In Longyearbyen, terminally ill patients are flown off the island, while people who do happen to die there are buried elsewhere. FAST food can be addictive, but this is ridiculous.

A 37-year-old man in Oregon, in the USA, has been arrested after attempting to destroy the famed “Golden Arches” at a McDonald’s, because staff refused to make him 30 double cheeseburgers.

Police arrested Jedediah Ezekiel Fulton on charges of disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and harassment over the incident.

It’s reminiscent of a similar situation in Sydney some months ago where a man was arrested over his reaction when his local McDonald’s declined to fulfil an early morning order for 200 hash browns - which he had in turn requested because McNuggets were not on the breakfast menu.