You couldn't make it up dept. no. 83: this desirable prize

[fpb]

The eleventh prize in a private lottery in San Marco in Lamis, a small town in Puglia, Italy, was a free luxury funeral, with a luxury casket with pillow and upholstery, a headstone, an "eternal light" made of glass and brass, a place at the town cemetery, and sacred items coming from Padre Pio's sanctuary at San Giovanni Rotondo. Although the lucky winner was allowed to pass it along to anyone, somehow the prize has remained unclaimed.

Comments

[guarani]

That shows my ignorance of Italian law on this matter (and on everything else, as a matter of fact).

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It's not about law so much as about crowded life in a crowded countries. There is a constant problem about cemeteries - they tend to become crowded.

[guarani]

Probably due to the fact that, unlike everywhere else, bodies go there to stay for good.