Wegen eines Tippfehlers für tot gehalten zu werden, ist fast noch schlimmer, als wirklich tot zu sein:

»Laura Todd said an 8-year-old typo is affecting everything from her credit to her tax return. „I don’t think people realize how difficult it is to be dead when you’re not,” she said. She said her problems started when someone in Florida died and her Social Security number was accidentally typed in. Todd said she thought the problem had been straightened out, but when she went to refinance her house in 2002, “SunTrust called and said, ‘Your credit report says you’re dead.’“ She straightened that incident out, but in 2006 the Internal Revenue Service refused to process her return. „The IRS says I’m dead. Everybody says I’m dead,” she said. (…)«

(Woman Says Being Declared Dead Ruins Life, via The Risks Digest)