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[–] [email protected] 100 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

You'd be amazed by the high number of people who are legally dead and how hard it makes the lives of them and their families. Literally no legal framework is properly prepared to acknowledge mistaken death cases and reinstating the legal personhood of someone declared legally dead. There's a story of one of them in India who formed an association of dead people, and got up to weird shenanigans to try and pressure the courts to declare him alive again. Including organizing and assisting to his own funeral, suing the state for his wife widower pension, getting himself arrested to force authorities to produce papers, and running for a local office election. There's a movie about him called, Kaagaz (2021). And he won an IgNobel price for his efforts to make mistaken death more visible.

Man was dead for almost 20 years, but he got better.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"he got better" made me lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

'The report of my death was an exaggeration'

Mark Twain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

and running for a local office election.

🎶My friends these elections this season to come

Your capitalists, socialists, fascists and bums

Your left and your right are both out of their heads

So this year for office we’re running the dead!🎶

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, but can you prove you've continuously occupied this body for the last 20 years?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Reverse exorcism vibes

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sounds great to me. You don't have to pay taxes. You can't be arrested, because you can't arrest a dead person. You can do anything you want to do. It's just like being dead, but alive to experience it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

They can arrest you without identification. When they book you they will have to manually type in the information unless the finger print pulls it automatically. The issues may ensue that there is no process to release a dead inmate. They'd likely end up stuck in a shitty loophole like the movie The Terminal. Permanently stuck in a jail not able to be booked into a prison or some junk.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If the dude is legally dead, he can go rob a bank or something and they cannot prosecute him because he is dead. Just saying..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They can make him go get back in his coffin/grave. "Sir. SIR! Please do not make us use violent force!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, if you went full bureaucracy, they would have no rights.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That argument goes both ways.

Can't be convicted for killing someone who's been dead for twenty years....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mutilation of a corpse says otherwise

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But you could conservate the corpse for example in an atmosphere without oxygen :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Now I'm getting serial killer vibes... Remind me to never tell you 8fninend up legally dead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That’s what I was saying.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

He forgot the bribe. It's Romania, always tip your government server.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

My most infuriating feeling about this is how a bureaucracy will slip in how everyone else fails upon not seeing their own shortsightedness coming at them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

The late Constantin Reliu.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

"You take one nap in a ditch in the park, and people start declaring you this and that!"