# Does everyone eventually get proclaimed deceased? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 28, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-eventually-get-proclaimed-deceased/130023 "2002-09-28T23:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-eventually-get-proclaimed-deceased/130023/1 "2002-09-28T23:10:25Z")
So is there any official state computer that is keeping track of how old everyone is based on our birth certificate and sending red flags up if someone is 130 and hasn’t been registered deceased? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-eventually-get-proclaimed-deceased/130023/2 "2002-09-28T23:30:24Z")
not yet ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-eventually-get-proclaimed-deceased/130023/3 "2002-09-28T23:30:54Z")
Well, I can’t give you a cite to prove something exists, but no. Social Security computers probably has flags if benefits are claimed for too long a time period, but they haven’t been handing out benefits all that long. And why would the government look for unusually old people? At most, they’re looking for fraudulent claims. Birth certificates used to be handled, I think, at the local or county level, depending on the state. There’s no way that they’ve gone back into old paper records and put them all on computer, from every locality in America. Maybe in _another_ hundred years, once all collected data goes into computers from the get-go, this will be possible. ---
**Author:** ![effac3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@effac3d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/effac3d)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-eventually-get-proclaimed-deceased/130023/4 "2002-09-29T04:50:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimboguy \* > \*\*Well, I can’t give you a cite to prove something exists, but no. Social Security computers probably has flags if benefits are claimed for too long a time period, but they haven’t been handing out benefits all that long. And why would the government look for unusually old people? At most, they’re looking for fraudulent claims. > > Birth certificates used to be handled, I think, at the local or county level, depending on the state. There’s no way that they’ve gone back into old paper records and put them all on computer, from every locality in America. > > Maybe in _another_ hundred years, once all collected data goes into computers from the get-go, this will be possible. \*\* Actually i’d give it another decade or two. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-eventually-get-proclaimed-deceased/130023/5 "2002-09-29T06:00:28Z")
Some private companies that sell records (birth and death and other identifying info. on people) on CDs are working hard to compile such data so they can make more money. One online site re: death records: [http://www.vitalrec.com/death.html](http://www.vitalrec.com/death.html)