Suppose you’re like Buffy or Mulder, and are dead and buried for a while, only to come back to life at a later point. What sort of problems would this cause in every day life? Assume that the person in question is legally a living human post-resurrection, not the undead.
So far, from reading articles like this one about people who were erroneously declared dead it seems that you’d have problems with:
filing taxes
lose social security payments & medicaid (what if you weren’t elderly or disabled, would it haunt you come retirement?)
having your credit cards and health insurance cancelled.
It feels like there would be more hassles involved, though. Can you think of others?
And does it matter how long you’ve been dead or “dead”? Are people who have been dead for twenty or thirty years before being resurrected going to have a lot more problems than someone who was only dead a few months like Mulder and Buffy were?
Oh, and would there be any extra issues if the formerly dead was a minor? Financial aid problems, school records, things like that?
As a bonus question, what hoops do you think you’d need to jump through to prove you’re who you say you are in order to resolve all these problems? DNA tests, something else?
Another question would be what age the person would be considered to be, and whether the time spent dead counts.
I imagine, though, that the ultimate legal resolution would involve the law not actually acknowledging the resurrection, but just considering the person to have never died in the first place.
I daresay all your personal assets would have been distributed to your heirs, so you have to hope some are still around so you can zombie-mooch off of them
Many have speculated that Beethoven would have felt he had wasted his efforts in producing great works of music after seeing the state of the art today. As a matter of fact when they opened his grave they found…
I’m wondering what happens when a missing person who has been declared dead and had his assets distributed (over here, it takes a long while except if circumstances make death likely) suddenly reappear.
I’m pretty sure it must happen sometimes. Would he get his assets back, or not?
Does anyone remember the Simpson’s episode where this happens to Homer?
He turns up somewhere (can’t remember where) all charged up to do battle with the dead hand of bureaucracy and the guy behind the computer presses one button and tells him that everything’s sorted leaving him somewhat deflated.
