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Published January 24th, 2007 in Personal, Fodder

Wow… A whole dog race I didn’t even know existed! (Speaking of which, Iditarod begins in thirty-seven days!)

Here’s a Damn Interesting article called The Association of the Dead by Gerry Matlack. Seems in some countries the proper bribery of officials can get you pronounced dead, whereupon your relatives inherit your wordly goods. It took one fellow eighteen years to get his death certificate revoked, and in that time he couldn’t get loans, own property, or even get arrested.

I gotta wonder, would he have been able to get away with murder? Literally? What kind of society produces such a weird bureaucracy that allows this to happen? Why did it take eighteen years to overturn? In my cyberpunk future, I can see enclaves of the living dead — people who can’t get assistance, can’t get legal work, can’t have a voice because they’re legally dead… That’d be a hel of a story…