Does This Look Like The Face Of A Guy Who Was Ruled Dead And Showed Up To Court To Appeal That He's Alive But Was Too Late So He's Still Technically Dead?
The Guardian- In a case reminiscent of a Kafka novel, a Romanian court has ruled that a 63-year-old man is dead despite what would appear to be convincing evidence to the contrary: the man himself appeared alive and well in court. Constantin Reliu asked the court in the town of Barlad to overturn a death certificate obtained by his wife after he had spent more than a decade in Turkey, during which time he was out of contact with his family. The court told him he was too late, and would have to remain officially deceased. “I am officially dead, although I’m alive,” a bemused Reliu told local media outlets. “I have no income and because I am listed dead, I can’t do anything.” Reliu left Romania for Turkey in 1992, apparently to seek employment. He last returned to the country in 1999, and appears to have cut off all contact with his family. After years of silence from her estranged husband, Reliu’s wife obtained a backdated death certificate for him. The Romanian daily Adevarul said Reliu’s wife had argued in court that having heard nothing from her husband since 1999, she had assumed he had died in an earthquake while in Turkey. The paper said Reliu believes she sought the death certificate in order to annul the marriage and allow her to remarry.
Confusing stuff here. We’ve got an alive guy who was legally dead so he showed to court (alive) but shoed up too late and is now legally still a dead person. How do you miss that court date? How are you late to that one? It’s not a speeding ticket bub. It’s the court date that determines whether or not you’re a living person. That’s an important one. Maybe set two alarms.
By the way, what the hell does this guy think he’s doing? Stay dead dude! Stay dead. Dead is in. Listen, I’m not one of those people who, whenever they see a tweet about an asteroid head towards Earth, quote tweets it and goes “FINALLY” We get it. Your life is sooooooooooo sad and sooooooooooo hard in 2018 that you wish you were dead. I mean you were only born randomly into a time period where it’s the easiest and best time to ever be alive. So tough. Pretending you wanna be dead is hot in the streets. It makes you super relatable. We get it. Although I’d be willing to bet all those people don’t wanna be dead and would bawl their eyes out if the life chips were actually down. Anyways. I’m not one of those people but I firmly believe that being legally dead (while still alive) would be AWESOME. Just think of the benefits. There’s being off the grid and there’s being legally dead. Dead people have no responsibilities. Dead people don’t pay taxes. I can’t think of a better situation than being legally dead but actually alive. The more I think about it, this guy was probably late on purpose. He sees it.