My Zen Arcade

Again, the French seem to handle everything backwards (like, for example, standing up to the Germans only AFTER France has been completely taken over).
It is simply impossible to keep people from dying based on threats.
The smart thing is to clear out more space in the cemetery.
There are three ways to accomplish this:

1. Move bodies from the graves into other spaces and/or cremate them. Many of these people have been dead for a long, long time and no one cares. Obviously, the big concern is that the spirits of the dead may become quite angry. On the plus side, Ghost Hunters will have material for a new season.
2. Instead of moving the bodies, it seems reasonable to me that the bodies could be effectively turned into either fertilizer or cow feed (hey, if dead cow can be ground up into cow feed, its only reasonable to think that people can be too. Or are you saying that cows are superior to people? Do you think cows are too good to eat people? What kind of tree-hugger are you???)
3. Zombies.

Cemetery full, mayor tells locals not to die | Oddly Enough | Reuters

BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) – The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that “all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish.”

It added: “Offenders will be severely punished.”

The mayor said he was forced to take drastic action after an administrative court in the nearby town of Pau ruled in January that the acquisition of adjoining private land to extend the cemetery would not be justified.

Lalanne, who celebrated his 70th birthday on Wednesday and is standing for election to a seventh term in this month’s local elections, said he was sorry that there had not been a positive outcome to the dilemma.

“It may be a laughing matter for some, but not for me,” he said.