Around here they ran out death certificates and a widow had to wait three weeks to have they dead and buried husband declared dead. Oh did I mention death insurance only gets paid three to six months after you have done all the paperwork?
I recently canceled a land phone line, it was in name of my father who has been dead over ten years. Yes I did get the death certificate made ten years ago, but the phone company didn't find out he was death until a few months ago when the phone line finally got cancelled.
Not joking.
Also I still get "Pay now or else" letters in the name of someone who died over twenty years ago. I went and got a copy of the death certificate to get to those people. But bolted once they wanted me to sign anything since I didn't want to get saddled with the debt, is been twenty years you see, so interests have been piling up.
I can't wait until they finally send something worse that a debt notice, and I tell however wants me to sign anything that the person died back in 1991.
And no, not joking about this one either.