Hey y'all. I'm new. Doesn't have much to do with this community really, but the title seemed relevant, and you looked like you'd be open to hearing a weird story.
Here's the deal: I'm legally dead. I'm 19 years old and in perfect physical health, and I have never had a serious injury or illness or anything. But about 7 months ago, someone in the Social Security Administration made a mistake, and ever since that I have been technically dead.
I can look myself up in their death registry, and there it is, my full name, SSN, date of birth, zipcode, and my supposed date of death last April.
I haven't been able to find any explanation - the bureaucracy really doesn't want to admit it made a mistake. So they just point to their computer screens and say "Look, it says right here. Dead!"
This means a number of things, like not being able to recieve the Social Security checks I should be getting, not being able to open a bank account or get a credit card, etc, etc. In the eyes of the federal government, I no longer exist.
I've been looking really hard to try to find *anyone* with a similar experience - but Googling "death mistakes" is not very helpful. Has anyone heard of anything like this before? Anything at all?
