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* Britney Spears' Myspace page was recently{{when}} hacked (or so they claim) with a fake death announcement.
* In India, it's popular to bribe an official to declare a relative dead so that you can inherit his property. It has all the advantages of murder without the unpleasant messiness.
** [http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/24/world/24INDI.html?ex=1083211200&en=3394201d75ddfea1&ei=5070 Lal Bihari] had this happen to him and it took him years to literally get his life back. He was awarded an [https://web.archive.org/web/20190604012502/http://improbable.com/ig/ Ignobel Prize] for his foundation of the Association of Dead People. One tactic of Association members is to get arrested at protests, leaving the authorities to explain how dead people can be arrested.
* On June 25, 2009, Jeff Goldblum was reported dead of a fall on a movie set in New Zealand. On June 30, 2009, Jeff Goldblum went on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' (on which he had made several appearances) to deny the ([[Captain Obvious|fake]]) reports of his death. He then subsequently caved to the evidence, ([[Reality Is Unrealistic|news program clips reporting his death]]) [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/220019/june-29-2009/jeff-goldblum-will-be-missed confirmed his own death, and gave his own "eulogy."]
* In the aftermath of the [[Velvet Revolution|17th November 1989 demonstration]], a rumor has spread that a student named Martin Šmíd was killed during the event. This turned to be a misinformation; a student of that name was at the demonstration, but left before the police intervention began. He was interviewed in the television, presumably to dispel the rumor...and the transmission started at just the wrong moment when he was saying, referring to the events of the day: "Death touched me." (In case this figure of speech doesn't translate well to English, he meant: "I was horrified.")
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