![]() Faked death: when the subject fakes their own death in order to evade legal, financial, or marital difficulties and start a new life.Clerical errors: due to clerical errors, almost 500 living people in the United States are inadvertently considered dead each month by the Social Security Administration.Brush with death: when the subject unexpectedly survives a life-threatening illness or injury which made the person appear to be dead or certain to die or if they were really dying but not yet dead at the time of publication. ![]() The most egregious examples were in 2003 when CNN incorrectly reported the death of seven major world figures in this way, and in 2020 when Radio France Internationale published as many as 100 premature obituaries. ![]()
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