When something as natural and inevitable as death is banned, it does seem a tad illogical. You would be surprised to know that there actually are quite a few places on Earth where death has been forbidden, and deemed illegal. In fact, it seems that this is actually an age-old practice; the earliest known instance of the prohibition of death was in the 5th century BC, when dying wasn’t allowed on religious grounds at the Greek island of Delos. Each place has a reason of its own, varying from religious beliefs to environmental factors。
像死亡这种自然的、无法避免的事情都被禁止，貌似有些不合情理。不过，世界上还真有那么几个地方，居然将死亡列为违法行为。其实，这种规矩也可说是古老习俗。早在公元前5世纪受宗教影响，希腊的得洛斯岛就禁止过死亡。无论是受宗教影响还是环境制约，各个地方总有禁止死亡的个中缘由。
We’ll take a look at four places where death is forbidden in today’s world:
下面四个是地球上至今仍还禁止死亡的地方，一起看看吧：
