Why Dying is Illegal in Longyearbyen, Norway
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SAS landing Longyearbyen video courtesy Thomas Woodtil (CC attribution)
Polar bear video courtesy Sonal Choudhary (CC attribution)
"So what are you in for?"
"I killed a man. What about you?"
"I died"
*killer moves away in fear*
“You killed me don’t you remember that?”
@@ZaHandle "ohh, you're that guy lmao"
Creepy Croop “Hol’ up”
Someone is going to get wooooooshed
Well I mean a talking dead person is scary (I do get the joke)
*”For your crime of death you have been sentenced to death.”*
I'm wondering who gets charged? Why not just fly the body out? It's not like bodies aren't transported all the time. They could just ban being buried there.
no
That wouldn't be as intresting for videos and stuff
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@@BahKnee no see what they do is they execute your dead body so then you are dead x2
🤣🤣🤣
*Person dying.*
Death: “Alright it’s your time to go.”
Person: “No. Dying is illegal here.”
Death: “Oh my bad bro carry on.”
Lol
That's actually genius
we've discovered immortality!
Death : understandable, have a great life
Criminal: "I'm going to shoot you."
Person: "No. Guns are illegal here."
Criminal" "Oh, my bad bro, carry on."
“You’ll never take me alive” takes on a whole new meaning here.
Man: *gets murdered*
Police: You're under arrest.
Murderer: Who, me?
Police: No, the guy you just murdered.
Seems legitn't
Police: You're on thin ice murderer
Murderer is still under arrest for 3rd degree death
Can’t arrest when dead
@Kaeden Bak r/wooosh
Norway: (Bans death)
Norway: We did it boys, death is no more.
Death rate drops to zero. We've achieved immortality!
Grapey da_ Graper xD sorry that’s impossible since it’s illegal
Breaking news:
-------------------------------------/
Death rate drops to zero
This but gund
When I die in Norway
The government: *wait, that’s illegal*
him: ”could help prevent a future pandemic” me: instantly goes to comments
same tho
same
same
wow, this is exactly what im doing
Seems didn’t work out well - it can’t prevent the future pandemic
“You’re under arrest.” Said the policeman, staring at the corpse in front of him.
Corpse: ...
Policeman: STOP RESISTING
😂😂😂
@@TroubleMuppet 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me seeing this in 2021 hearing ”could help prevent a future pandemic”.
Shovel Man14 yea too late mate
I thought it was a reference to covid... Then I look at the date and it was 2 years ago.
Mmmmmmm fucken aye hagay
Same thought on the same line
If he had only known
Hello from the future pandemic. The bodies didn’t help.
😆
Different virus.
@@censusgary yes xD
I was looking for a comment like this 😂
Dude, imagine this phrase out of context
Me: *dies*
Longbearbyen digging up my body: “bitch you ain’t done yet”
No way its none other than Casual Woomy himself
How the hell did I find you here
@@Joltemon 7.5K comments and you stumble across mine?
@@casualwoomy I guess I did
Now it's time to hunt down more Redditors here
Someone: has a funeral
The police: YOU ARE ALL ARRESTED INCLUDING THE DEAD PERSON
“Mom can we go see grandpa!?”
“Sure Timmy let me call the corpse prison”
"These bodies hold the clues that may stop a future, global pandemic"
That didn't age well.
Was looking for this lmao
Neither did the bodies
Uh.. yes they do, that's the problem.
movieplot......
Why does it not surprise me that all the top comments are essentially just that in particular line in 2020/2021?
“So... what you in for?”
“.....”
“Damn.”
imagine putting the body just like that in prison and having this scene.
“Damn.”
Someone: *dies randomly
Longyearbyen, Norway: *And I took that personally.*
"So how did you get here?"
"I died."
"Ah, me too."
"If you want to start a travel agency for dead bodies, you need a website"
I don't think I've heard any better line for sponsorship
Corpse relocation services
Get ‘em outta here
I gonna put this outta contexts
LOL
hol up
Forced ads
I imagine this has created some interesting local phrases
“Grandmas gone to Oslo now son. I’m sorry”
lukassnakeman it's like a scene from a utopian/dystopian book.
They're literally going to heaven when they enter the plane.
"In the year 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. Their community is governed by a set of strict rules. The residents believe the outer world has become too contaminated for human life with the exception of one contagion-free island. Every week, a lottery is conducted and the winner gets to leave the compound to live on the island."
@Miner 2049er nice reference
ClashBerry - Tutorials & More moby dick?
When I heard ‘That could help stop a future pandemic’ I instantly checked when this was posted and the comments lol
"sir, you can't die here."
"come at me!!"
But the real question is...
Is this punishable by death?
Hehe
Aleksander Mortensen I could feel the wind from the joke going over your head
Aleksander Mortensen mmhmmm...
Aleksander Mortensen ( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡•)
Dying being punishable by death...
There has to be some sort of paradox in that.
Guy: * dies *
Police: *all units, we have detected suspicious activity*
payday 2 reference
body is still warm. theres a killer about
@@user-wk2gi5cp9y still cold*
@@hmthisisit still warm*
@anti gacha commander another one bits the dust
"Someone died again sir..."
"OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"
If you think about it, it’s an endless loop, then they die again once executed, and are executed over and over till ready to cook and cremate and then throw away without a trace
Brings new meaning to "you'll never take me alive"
"These bodies hold information that could prevent a future global pandemic"
Me, watching this from quarantine in March 2020: oh honey
considering scientists were close to develop a vaccine for the first coronavirus but thenfunding was dropped ...
www.cnbc.com/2020/03/05/scientists-were-close-to-a-sars-coronavirus-vaccine-years-ago.html
money?
glad I wasn't the only one thinking that
@@orange_5936 and they're everywhere ...
That's what I was going to say XD
Pandemic? More like.... pandemic! XD
Breaking news:
Death rate drops to 0%
*1000 iq*
I'm moving myself
1 day later world populations increased by 100%
@@athalarahmanjauhari4135 tjhats not how math works
Big Brain
Somebody : F*CKING DIES
Longyearbyen : Wait that's illegal.
Prisoner: What are you in here for?
Rotting Skeleton: Oh, I died in Longyearbyen.
Prisoner: Shifts away from fear
“Future global pandemic” yeah, ‘bout that...
OH MY GOSH I WAS THINK THE SAME THING!!!! 😂😂😂😂
Preston Haldi same
Yessssss
It's not the time to dig them up. We don't need two and it would be far worse.
Future global FLU pandemic. It would be as useful against coronavirus as antibiotics would be. I knew I'd see the comment section filled with things like this. It's so stupid. I go to a video about the black plague, and it's full of comments about coronavirus. I go to a video about anything related to viruses or bacteria or parasites of any kind and you think your current concerns are just so relevant to it. Well you know what, the 1918 flu was MUCH worse than coronavirus anyway. We're talking 10% lethality instead of 1%. And yes coronavirus is more like 1% or less, because most of the cases aren't known about, there are many many people walking around with it who don't know they have it but all the cases of death by coronavirus are known about so that inflates the official lethality percentage. Also the % lethality is much higher in the first world like the US, UK and espeically Italy because it has so many old old people, while it's very low in places like Chile with much more primitive healthcare available, and why is that? Because by and large it's mostly only killing off people who would have been dead in 10 years anyway. History will show that you're all worked up about something that was never particularly powerful.
Im OLD im gonna die
*DIES*
Norway: Put him in the Prison
Also norway: Prisons have a higher life expectancy/standard than most parts of the world have at all
Old dude: Not cool but I accept it
Imagine being homeless and doing a crime to get in to prison in Norway lol
Norwegian prisons apparently have better quality of life than child education centres in the US (I mean schools)
@@internetperson9813 I thought school sucks here but not that bad
@@mikaelslezak4577 crime rates after u said that: 📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈
Coming back to this from 5 years in the future... its interesting how all the sarcasm is still there but his voice is so much more docile. Also, the COVID irony lol
Imagine you just turned 18, living a new life as an early adult and then the next thing you received in the mail is a charge about breaking the law since in your last life you died there.
Moral of the story: if you live in Longyearbyen and you're too poor to move away from that place just pretend you're dying and you'll be in Oslo
Thank me later
LOL
You can only live in Longyearbyen if you have a job there. When you retire you have to leave
Seems legit
LOL
r/ShittyRealLifeTips
Look at the bright side, They can't catch you alive
ME WINNEE XD
ME WINNEE LOL
Its funny because its true
Me: YOU WILL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!
Officer: As you wish. (Shoots me in the face).
damn
Someone: *dies in longyearbyen*
Norway: Wait, that’s illegal.
Who knew that world pandemic would only be in TWO YEARS
and also
*death*
Longyearbyen: Stop, you’ve violated the law....
“Stop a future pandemic” little late.
No, stupid, a FLU pandemic. Analysing it would be as useful against coronavirus as antibiotics would be. And it's not too late anyway. Do you actually think the puny coronavirus is the last pandemic the human race will ever face anyway? The most incidental one, maybe. Wait until you become acquainted with airborne rabies and superAIDS in a few years.
@@medexamtoolsdotcom do you know what a joke is??
@@medexamtoolsdotcom It was a joke...
He was acknowledging the current pandemic...
@@medexamtoolsdotcom And he didn't say "flu", he said "future global pandemic"...
@@medexamtoolsdotcom And the oc never said covid-19 was the last pandemic...he was just talking about the current one...
So the moral of the story is... If you're going to die, go to Longyearbyen. There might be a chance you get life in prison afterwards...
You must be fun at parties
+John He is actually fun.
Why do you use a sarcastic sentence when it's not necessary?
Cybernik The Robot you must also be fun at parties!
Cybernik The Robot chill brah
Take advantage of the system... NICE!!!
I remember this being in my recomended when it came out, but I never watched it.... but now it is back and I am.
Why is nobody talking about how smooth the transition from video to sponsor was?
It wasn't
Random guy: **dies of a heart attack**
Police: Alright, old man! That was your last straw! **takes out handcuffs**
is the straw the vein that got clogged
@@iwbmo MAKING FUN OF HEART ATTACKS AREN'T FUNNY
WOW YOU REALLY SCROLLED DOWN FOR NOTHING?
r/wooosh me, i dare you
@@universenerdd stfu
@@universenerdd r/woooosh
@@universenerdd lolololol
But... if someone dies unexpectedly, who gets punished?
Um. Life?
Life, the court sentenced you to life!
You
You
+a disaster 😂😂
"Hey what are you in for?"
"I died"
That sqaure space ad segway was gold
Man: *get's heart-attack and dies*
People: *saves man*
Police: Sir. You're under arrest.
why? for near death experience.
Being under the influence of death
@Twelve Another example: if you steal something, and you bring it back.
(do not you get a penalty?)
so just be dead and that back to life is the same
Videoswordmaster is right , in the two case , you could have just died/stole and end of the story , but also in the two cases it was close to an crime , so it would be a lighter penalty but an existing penalty ?
( sorry for my English level , I’m French )
@@leiloan7677 i agree TO DIsagrEe
What if I kill someone there and the one I killed gets blamed because he died
choccslay 200 iq
NASA - *DON'T FUCKING MOVE*
bopp9 NOT FUCKING FUNNY
choccslay You'd be arrested and charged for assisting in a crime (not murder)🤔
Edit: Someone's gonna take this too seriously so jk ahead of time.
IcyFrost and in space sskskk
I have seen only one video and i am in love with this chanel
"sir why is there a corpse in the back of the police van?"
"He died in Svalbard, so we're gonna have to arrest him"
"I killed a man, you?"
"I'm the guy you killed."
Think about the sheer terror on the killers face when they turn to face the killer with 3 bullet holes in their face
That would be kinda akward
underrated comment
@@JAY-zf6jw wait both of them are killers??
lol
"Remember son, dying is gay"
-Soldier's father.
Me now dying to be more gay:
Tf2 reference. I love it.
*dies not in gay way*
Was looking for this comment and now i found it. Thank you
Says no homo
So it wasn't gay
Probably the best segue ever to the sponsor section of a video.
I like how there's a gallery and journal page for Corpse Relocation Services
And the worst part is, you're almost guaranteed an additional charge due to not showing up for your court date.
Ye never mind not following the directions of an officer of the law
well shit then
ntm4 they'll take your dead body, rob your grave and throw your dead body in jail without a warrant
Well at least the worst sentence they can give you is jail for life.
Too bad they can do shit about it, they can’t execute you because death is illegal.
I suppose that means it's illegal to be eaten by a polar bear, then.
why don't they just feed the dead body to polar bears. it's not like the dead can use it anymore :p
Syukri Lajin lmao that's an idea
Yes technically it is, if you get eaten by polar bears its your fault. A few people from the Czech republic was camping outside Longyearbyen and during night they got attacked by a polar bear and before they managed to shoot and kill the polar bear two of the campers got mauled but survived. Later the Czech were convicted and had to pay a fine, why? They failed to set up a tripwire around their camp which triggers a flare, they also didn't have anyone guarding the camp during night-time.
Syukri Lajin because you don't want the bears coming every now and then thinking that you will give them free food
also humans are not just sacks of meat
There would be no body so it should be fine. Not for your though, just everyone else...
Norway: *Bans death*
God: You weren’t supposed to do that.
"And now for the clickbait." Brilliant, lovely self-laughter, well done! Great content, good narration.
dies
*gets death penalty*
I was just about to fucking type that
Sounds like something that would happen to Bad Luck Brian
@OliverCromwell
It’s the best way to increase life expectancy I’ve ever seen!
I'm actually laughing
What if I die of old age in longyearbyen,Norway.
Is it legal?
I hope this is a joke lol
Hong Pham you get flown to Oslo (help i forgot how to English flown)
This hits different in 2021
NOOOOO!!11!!! DONT DIE IT ILLEGAL **proceeds to revive the 106 year old woman that just passed**
Wow! How convenient. I was just planning to go die at Longyearbyen, Norway. Guess I can't die.
Ryan Macleod guess what you're immortal now, congrats bud!
Guess I’ll go die.
uhh you can but you'll be fined I guess
Ryan Macleod too bad man so bad
Ryan Macleod I
"stop a future global pandemic" guess we suck at our own jobs
Spanish flu was an influenza virus. Kinda in the name. It's entirely unsurprising that studying it wouldn't be exactly a silver bullet against a type of coronavirus.
It's about the same as if you do your chemistry homework and are surprised that it isn't particularly useful in a physics test.
If we bring back the Spanish flu, maybe we can rid the world of covid-19.
Just like how covid-19 was a miracle that rid the world of the flu, colds, heart disease, and a bunch of other things that used to kill people!
@@MasterRoshi69 covi has killed 1 million people but around 150k people die every single day of causes other than covi sooooo the number of people that die in 1 week is more than total number covi did in 1 year or so
so definitely more controlled than the Spanish flu
@@dhruvavikas1632 Thank you for appreciating my sarcasm :)
"could help prevent future pandemic"
Me in 2021: yeah, it prevented the pandemic but not for long.
Me: Accidentally dies in Longyearbyen/Norway
Laws: So you have chosen, death?
Guy: *dies*
Judge: Death penalty!
The longest sentence for jail in Norway is 21 years and you can’t be judged to death. -Fun fact-
Fuzz XD
Fuzz LMFAO
So it'd be more like
Guy: *Dies*
Judge: You're charged with 21 years!
-A few years later
Interviewer: So how is prison life? Good?
Inmate A: Well, I'm inmates with a rotting, disease-ridden corpse so... Yeah, you could say that.
... I'll see myself out.
nGon- XDDD 🤣😂🤣 I died of laughter!!! Oh wait...Does that mean, that I'm in prison for the next 21 years??? NOOO!!! I'M ONLY 15, I'M NOT READY TO DIE/GO TO JAIL!!!
*dies in Longyearbyen*
"You'll never take my alive!"
Soulless Husk fellow asdfmovie fan!
scratch.mit.edu?
My alive needs some polishing.
when you to prison in norway the guard says: "that's your prison roommate inmate" then you just see a dead dude
"I robbed a bank. You?"
"I'm the teller you shot."
I was intrigued until the ending...That sponsorship plug came outta nowhere lol
You must be new here
LOOOOOOOOL
My IQ droped by 1
There's Nor Way they are going to let that happen.
Shane Wright ba dum tssssk
that sponsorship ad was smooth~
The goddamn sponsorship transition is so smooth
It's always smooth, really.
Yes it is :)
and fucking annoying
Totally! Didn't see that coming
+Enlightened Doggo I know but still. Every time i get suprised
this channel has some of the best low-key dark humor... i love it
lancerfour yes. Same!
Queen Elizabeth: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be *legendary*
"What are ya gonna do? Lock their coffin in a jail cell?"
"Yes."
"Oh"
1:17 but does that dealership sell Toyota Corollas? How many Corollas could it sell? WE MUST KNOW
Wrong person lol
Yea I want to know who’s buying these cars in the arctic
For a second I read it as Chlorella wtf
I'd say with good ol' CGP Grey
Dreadlord Sinister this guy is way better than Vsauce. Vsauce over rated
Well, it’s been a long year, Ben…
Mr.Triple3D fuck off
Oliver Queen Ireland yay
Hey like the profile pic!
Oliver Queen XD
Yah it had
"Could stop a future global pandemic."
Me listening in 2021: Not sure we were able to dodge that bullet there, pal.
This was the first HAI video I’d ever seen.
Local resident:wanna know a fact about this town
Tourist: sure
Local: wOrLdS mOsT nOrThErN ToYota delerShIp
Local: oh yeah we also have the bodies of 11 people who died of the Spanish Flu and the permafrost kept the Spanish Flu active in them which is why dying is illegal here, but that's not as interesting...
@@cameroncoleman1560 :) your statement made me chuckle :)
Reallifelore:ohhhhh ma gad
But basically since it's the most northern TOWN, everything literally everything in the whole town is the most northern of that thing, unless maybe there's some tiny arctic research station or something somewhere. So it would have the world's most northern bathroom and the world's most northern stop sign and the world's most northern parking spot and the world's most northern walmart I bet.
medexamtoolsdotcom There are multiple NOTABLE Arctic research stations further north than Longyearbyen, and Walmart doesn’t operate in the town. Basically everything you said except possibly the stop sign thing is wrong. Congratulations.
These comments are
70 % Covid-19 jokes
25 % dying illegally jokes
4 % Northenmost toyota dealership jokes
1 % This
Double Starburst copy
So that makes it 2% this?
No there are 0.033% assuming 2 of these
actually 0.06% this
XD
3:50 didnt stop it soon enough >.>
I speak Norwegian and I just can't with the way he says longyearbyen
How is it pronounced properly?
Could you spell it out phonetically, svp?
@@kirstyi7860 LANG-year-bee-en
@@thepethouse4980 Thanks. Cheers!
Human: dies of natural causes on Longyearbyen
God: *"Why is the police at my doorstep?"*
They put a dead guy from the lake In the police, taking him to court... He loses the trial, he goes to prison for a very long time.......
Omg that promo at the end. So smooth this is so fucking hilarious lol
3:43 Lmao I’m in a pandemic with the rest of the world
Maybe covid came from the bodies.....XD lol
The monotone delivery of “there’s no room for you here” shook me to my fucking spine
Death: it’s your time
Me: in longyearbyen its illegal
Death: understandable have a great day
ok
Death must obey the laws of physics, and also the laws of the world.
@@th-bt6fn yes indeed my brother it does!
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yo is that a supra
Its cold but hey at least i have this camry
YO IS THAT A FUCKING SUPRA
RealLifeLore would like this
T O Y O T A C O R O L L A
literal definition of you either die a villain, or live long enough to see yourself become a hero
This is the best sponsorship in history
It is not forbidden, you just can not be buried there.
Abyssinia Empire He said it in the video, *clickbait*
Well where's the clickbait in the truth
It is effectively forbidden. If you are sick or about to die, you are sent out of Svalbard.
So can I die there and have my body disposed of in another ways?
Ab
4:04 Dat transition...
"Get 'em out of here!"
JustusLM LAMO
I love how there's a gallery too.
All his videos are like that he's one big sellout
What? I don’t get it
“What are you gonna do, kill me?”
3:41
Wait a minute...
This man is a genius
I'm going there just to see the northernmost Toyota dealership
Hi , we made a similar content :)
Astrolabe True. Nice to see another small science channel!
MiYo thank you , I am the subscriber number 100
Presumably, they sell the Toyota Hilux so you can drive to the north pole.
The dealership better be at least 10 Toyota Corola's wide or I will be disappointed!
Person in Longyearbyen: *dies*
Norway: Wait. That's illegal.
Not even a joke
So they bring him back to life and put him on trial. He's found guilty, and they give him the death penalty for his crime. Sounds like a science fiction story in the making.
@@medexamtoolsdotcom then you realise death penalty is illegal in Norway so the judge gets a death penalty
400th like lol
@@Falafelen wait the judge died that is illegal
fun fact: no town north of Tokyo is bigger than Tokyo
The way he said “future, global pandemic” made me think this video was made during covid... i was kinda freaked out when I saw it was made in 2018
Cremation is a simpler process in my opinion
Yes, but maybe they don't want to set that up bc there's so few people there. Anyway, they could just drive the bodies to the other end of the island and not bury them so the polar bears can eat them.
@@HansPeter-qg2vc Thats what i do in Rimworld.
@@HansPeter-qg2vc It's a fire. I'm sure they have a few fires up there.
Dave Carsley he means that cremation machines itself are expensive
in mine, too. Had mankind voted unanimously to cremate deceased people instead of burying them... well, we would probably make a big step towards environmentalism and civilization
The alcohol restrictions doesn't have anything to do with the guns, but with history.
Longyearbyen used to be a mining settlement. In order to prevent the workers from drinking too much (which is pretty easy during the depressing dark season and booze is relatively cheap due to lack of taxes), they enforced this limitation in the amount of beer and liquor one is allowed to buy. Strangely, the sale of wine is not limited. This is because it was too expensive for the miners and so only the rich mine owners drank wine. And they of course did not want any limitation on the amount of booze they're allowed to buy and drink.
That's really interesting! I wonder about something the video doesn't mention: How is their economy funded? It doesn't seem like there's very much there- I certainly wouldn't have expected a car dealership- and it's too isolated for much tourism. Is the town subsidized by the Norwegian government, like Pitcairn Island is by Britain? What kind of jobs are there? Now I'll be Googling all about Longyearbyen.
It was completely funded by itself. Today it is mostly funded by Norwegian government. Mines are closing and only scientists are working there today. Svalbard is a state of Norway (Sort of like a state in the USA). Svalbard have their own government and laws and their own Governor (Sysselmann) under Norwegian Law. Laws are very different in Svalbard than it is in Norway, and anyone can go to work at Svalbard without a Visa. There is no taxes like there is i Norway. You are forced to have a rifle if you want to travel outside Longyearbyen. The name Longyearbyen is a mix of English and Norwegian. Byen means The city, so the name is The Long Year City, because most of the time it is night time in Longyearbyen so the year is very long.
Thank you! I also read that the average residency in Longyearbyen is about seven years, and there aren't very many lifelong residents. Families generally move away when their children have finished compulsory school at 16 or 17.
Norway doesn't have states (it's not a federation), it's more like a county (fylke). However, back in the day when Norway claimed it, Russia also really wanted it, so Britain mediated. The result was the Svalbard Agreement, which states that any country that has signed the agreement can put economic ventures on the island, and fish in its seas, but it's considered a part of Norway, and the Norwegian police and coast guard have authority there.
Even today there's a Russian town there, called Barentsburg, with a coal mine and some minor tourism and local school and stuff. It's not actually profitable though (same with Longyearbyen), both countries support their respective settlements to maintain their rights.
Anyway, this makes it kind of a unique part of Norway, which means that unlike the other counties on the mainland, it's "county manager" (Fylkesmann) has a special title (Sysselmann) and some extra powers, like controlling the police and overseeing the local judicial court.
Surprised no one has mentioned Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian coal-mining settlement on Svalbard. A statue of Lenin (also the world's most northerly) still stands there today.