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		HarryHirsch on Oct 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You're still legally dead, judge tells Fostoria ma... This is about the guy's Social Security money. You could argue that he shows up with unclean hands at court, after all he knew he had been declared dead since 2005 and did nothing about it in the intervening years. The obligatory references are Le Gentil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil) and the Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_the_Dead)

TheSwordsman on Oct 9, 2013 [–]

Maybe he didn't have the money to try to appeal this in court. The original article makes it seem that money was a factor here.

I guess it makes sense, but weird that you need to pay a nice chunk of money for someone to determine you are indeed actually alive...

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