Last night, I realized my population was maxed, and I needed a nursing mom (because I'd given up trying to figure out the last few puzzles, and checked a spoiler board...and I NEVER would have thought to drop a woman-with-a-baby into the lagoon). Anyway, I'd made the mistake of getting to level 3 in Medicine - so the old geezers were REALLY lingering. I decided to deny sick villagers medical care by isolating them in the graveyard, "Honoring the Dead" - and making sure nobody healed them as they trudged back and forth from the garden. Unfortunately, I had to step away from the computer for just a minute, and when I came back, somebody was healing a villager I'd been working hard for over 2 hours to get to death's door. I plucked the overly-helpful twit up and said, "That's it! You get to Honor the Idol indefinitely!" The absurdity of it made me giggle...and Honoring the Idol became the automatic punishment for anyone who even thought about curing sick people. :P