How This 1 Typo "Kills" 14,000 People Every Year

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2021
  • What if you wake up one day and don't exist anymore, legally presumed dead, your stuff sold off, and your family moved on? This happens more often than you'd think, being legally dead and trying to get back your life, bank accounts, and house. Let's get into it.
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  • @jeremyie
    @jeremyie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3711

    the idea that the law could just let people be claimed dead with the clear knowledge that theyre alive is honestly terrifying

    • @lindaflores6326
      @lindaflores6326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +199

      I mean identity theft is a possibility but the events described in this video were a bit silly, it would have been pretty easy to just declare them alive again once you take a quick look at their face.

    • @draconisthewyvern3664
      @draconisthewyvern3664 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      the government can’t even keep track of whose alive or dead but socialist think it will go over very well when the “proletariat” takes over all private property

    • @XiELEd4377
      @XiELEd4377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@lindaflores6326 or a dna test

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@draconisthewyvern3664 and guess what the government can do to take over your property?
      Yes, declare you dead... If there are no next of kin (not uncommon these days) everything falls to the government unless there's a will and those are easy to "disappear" especially as they have to be claimed in a timely manner and if nobody knows you're dead until that period expires...

    • @whatthepick
      @whatthepick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Gives life in prison a twist ... Well he's dead so

  • @imadethisforonepurpose271
    @imadethisforonepurpose271 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3096

    Imagine being too bureaucratic to accept the fact that the man speaking to you is not actually dead.

    • @tom4ivo
      @tom4ivo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      What would a bureaucrat do? If there isn't a form to fill out, they can't do anything.

    • @akumaking1
      @akumaking1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Just look at Congress.

    • @psychopompous489
      @psychopompous489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@tom4ivo Fine them.

    • @Saviliana
      @Saviliana 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      I would suggest that if they decide to declare you dead, your best option would be assault one of them, then they would certainly want speed up the process to make sure you be alive, so you could be punished by law made by them.

    • @MichaelSHartman
      @MichaelSHartman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I can.

  • @Aeriria94
    @Aeriria94 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3107

    Reminds me of when my mom tried to get my brothers birth certificate after he was born. The paperwork got lost or misplaced and, as a result, she had a really tough time proving she gave birth to him. After several months they managed to sort it out and she was finally able to get it.

    • @monroerobbins7551
      @monroerobbins7551 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Did that make him a different age on the papers?

    • @flippyflare1336
      @flippyflare1336 2 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      DNA testing could have also worked

    • @MR_GPU
      @MR_GPU 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      Nothing of this level but my mother had to provide documents of my name change for something or other but misplaced them. When she called the department in charge of this they said that those documents 'didn't exist', so she had to re-change my name. She then found the old documents again. Kinda crazy that they can just 'lose' stuff like that though.

    • @Aeriria94
      @Aeriria94 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@monroerobbins7551 No, they got his correct date of birth, as far as I know, we celebrate that as his birthday in any case. The only thing is the date is was issued is several months off from his birthdate compared to mine which is only a few days.

    • @Aeriria94
      @Aeriria94 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      ​@@flippyflare1336 They might have done DNA testing, I can't say for certain what was done. I just know they had to prove it was hers and that she had given birth to him.

  • @Strikery
    @Strikery 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1492

    “Hey I’m aliv-“
    Court: *NO YOU ARE DEAD NOW*

    • @arventus
      @arventus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Congratulations,you are now DEAD

    • @redthechaotic1187
      @redthechaotic1187 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      AND YOU STAY DEAD!! *As a line of armed men come out of one of the rooms*

    • @z4gee12
      @z4gee12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      69th like heheheh

    • @nightmarex1669
      @nightmarex1669 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The heavy is dead!

    • @nillawafabutblack5604
      @nillawafabutblack5604 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      TH-camrs be like:

  • @xpickpoke2266
    @xpickpoke2266 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1795

    "Hey, judge man, I'm in good heal-"
    Judge: IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE, JIM! MILLIONS OF FAMILIES SUFFER FROM IT EVERY YEAR!

    • @indonesianv1nce427
      @indonesianv1nce427 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Odd1sout reference

    • @xpickpoke2266
      @xpickpoke2266 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@indonesianv1nce427 it's actually a The Office reference

    • @indonesianv1nce427
      @indonesianv1nce427 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@xpickpoke2266 o

    • @psychopompous489
      @psychopompous489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@indonesianv1nce427 Didn't the fact that he drew himself as Dwite in that scene tick you off that it was a reference?

    • @Rouja1
      @Rouja1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@psychopompous489 TheOdd1sOut put that reference in a video, and they clearly haven't watched that scene from the Office, so that clip from TheOdd1sOut would be his only source of reference

  • @itsprivate3061
    @itsprivate3061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1464

    i mean, if you dont contact your wife in 17 years and then just "show up", i think you got bigger issues than being pronounced legally dead

    • @lindaflores6326
      @lindaflores6326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Well his wife was cheating on him and he was in debt so he didn't really care anymore and was just like "aight im heading out"

    • @Yafama
      @Yafama 2 ปีที่แล้ว +186

      @@lindaflores6326 He was also cheating on her at that point so the relationship didn’t really exist when he disappeared

    • @dmath1490
      @dmath1490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah like about to be murdered

    • @axeonee
      @axeonee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Welcome to Romania.

    • @Chunga9
      @Chunga9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *Fires Deagle*

  • @furfoxsake1175
    @furfoxsake1175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1338

    The typo part reminds me of when I was trying to register for college, but I was having trouble because there was something wrong with my SAT. Turns out they logged the year that I took it as "81" and not "18". Luckily it was resolved in time.

    • @sannsanniii
      @sannsanniii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      81... 💀

    • @raymondleggs5508
      @raymondleggs5508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@sannsanniii nearly 40 years ago LOL!

    • @mrafabrizi
      @mrafabrizi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      I think he meant that he took it on 2018 and he put it as 2081 lol

    • @ZenithAMVs
      @ZenithAMVs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@mrafabrizi We need to go back... BACK TO THE FUTURE !!!

    • @furfoxsake1175
      @furfoxsake1175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      @@mrafabrizi The system interpreted it as 1981 (there was only the last two digits of the year). Because of this it was automatically flagged as being too out of date (if I recall correctly the SAT needed to be taken within the last 3-5 years or something along the lines of that).
      What's funny though is that anyone who took the SAT in 2018 certainly wasn't around back in 1981. I have no idea how it wasn't automatically flagged in their system that it said I took my SAT two decades before I was even born. Maybe I'm just that smart.

  • @colorweaver5070
    @colorweaver5070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2559

    Hey finally watched one freshly brewed… I’ll see myself out

  • @gregbarnes4083
    @gregbarnes4083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +486

    Not quite the same but becuase of a look up error here in the UK my Dad was declared dead due to having the same name and birthdate as someone who had actually died.
    It took him having a trip to court and even having the testimony of the relatives of the person who had actually died to have it reversed.

    • @travisjordan1528
      @travisjordan1528 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      A coworker got his bank accounts closed, because his grandpa had the same name and died. They didn't even use the same bank or live in the same city.

    • @edsweet2858
      @edsweet2858 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Imagine what it’s like to be someone named John Smith that would probably happen to you a lot

    • @razrafz
      @razrafz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      wow couldnt they like look at the ID number or something

    • @prime_optimus
      @prime_optimus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@edsweet2858 You called?

    • @Lampe2020
      @Lampe2020 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@prime_optimus is close enough XD

  • @AtomicSuperior
    @AtomicSuperior 2 ปีที่แล้ว +554

    Imagine going to your house and the cops say, "I'll need to arrest you sir, you're dead"

    • @NeonRahkshi
      @NeonRahkshi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      better than having someone just shoot you to make sure
      or go "we've recovered the body, time for the buriel"
      or...
      *cremation*

    • @nonexistential7057
      @nonexistential7057 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      “YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE”

    • @mihyroiz_heatlair
      @mihyroiz_heatlair ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@nonexistential7057 that’s so cleaver

    • @YautjaSpacePirate
      @YautjaSpacePirate ปีที่แล้ว +10

      "You want me dead? Then let's fight to the death!"
      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

    • @MelB868
      @MelB868 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That would be the weirdest sentence

  • @brandonporter2321
    @brandonporter2321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +933

    Ngl, this sounds like some real life SCP stuff right here. A cognito hazard in our very own legal system.

    • @caveater
      @caveater 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      SCP AAAAAAAAAAH

    • @cinderlun5799
      @cinderlun5799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      i used to think every scp was real-

    • @CIoudStriker
      @CIoudStriker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@cinderlun5799 Don't let them find out you know. 10 PM GMT, at the dumpsters behind the high school.

    • @treasurechestgaming8423
      @treasurechestgaming8423 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CIoudStriker bro wth

    • @treasurechestgaming8423
      @treasurechestgaming8423 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CIoudStriker im not in high school

  • @dreamwolf7302
    @dreamwolf7302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +568

    Man this brings back memories.
    After my ex lost the custody case, she tried to have me declared deceased by a court in PA, while i was living in NY. A Judge in Maine, where the custody hearing had been settled after 5 years, caught wind of the matter when he was questioned on the last time he had seen or heard from me, which was less than 2 years prior.
    I was contacted, and thankfully able to put a stop to things before they escalated.
    To my irritation, she was not punished for this, with her defense being her mental illness and drug use (which was the whole reason for leaving her, and taking the twins when i did)

    • @zukiechi
      @zukiechi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      You did the right thing dude.
      Leaving her for drug use is perfectly reasonable.

    • @catman-du8927
      @catman-du8927 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      So where are the children? How could you ex claim you were dead if the children were with you?

    • @twigness
      @twigness 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@catman-du8927 it was probably after the case.

    • @jahrfuhlnehm
      @jahrfuhlnehm ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@catman-du8927 Someone with crippling mental health issues and drug use probably aren't the ones best to seek for any sense of reason. Doesn't sound like her attempt made it very far. A bold strategy, Cotton, but it didn't pay off.

    • @MelB868
      @MelB868 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I feel sorry for you sorry is everything okay now

  • @evervirescent
    @evervirescent 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Imagine being legally dead and after going to court for it they just shoot you instead

    • @bea3056
      @bea3056 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Oh you're not dead?
      Let's fix that

    • @evervirescent
      @evervirescent 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@bea3056 exactly

    • @vgamesx1
      @vgamesx1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      That's almost merciful compared to just telling someone "Well even though you're not dead, you're already legally dead so deal with it, not our problem" like geez, you might as well be dead at that point and if they're going to be that unhelpful at least offer to pay for a ride to another country or something.

    • @Silencer796
      @Silencer796 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bea3056 o_o

  • @seedz5132
    @seedz5132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    A friend of the family was pronounced legally dead after he was mistaken for an homonym who really died.
    lemme tell you : it's a nightmare. he couldn't renew his ID and driver's licence, couldn't pass the vehicule check up you need to pass regularly or renew its insurance (making it illegal to drive), his bank account got forcibly closed, he couldn't get any of his retirement benefits or social security / medical insurance payouts... He even couldn't legally live at his place since he was renting it - a dead person cannot sign a rent after all. Also, he wasn't able to take trains or planes anymore.
    He battled the administration for 3 years to be legally alive again. Funny thing ? The dead guy was still legally alive in the meantime.
    By the way, this was in France.

  • @johnpatton7533
    @johnpatton7533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    I had a keystroke error but it was on my criminal record not a mistake that declared me dead. I had a ghost conviction that caused my license to be suspended because of a typo and couldnt get it fixed because they couldnt find the case that caused it to be suspended. took 5 years to get it sorted out and get a new license. Wound up losing my job, my health insurance (which is a nightmare because im a cancer survivor), and had to move back in with my parents. Still havent gotten a job with health benefits and have no health insurance. All because someone made a mistake on some paperwork then the bureaucrats involved kept saying they couldnt do anything unless i could provide a case number for a case that never existed smh

    • @emperorlizZ
      @emperorlizZ ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That's messed up

    • @SolomonUcko
      @SolomonUcko ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Why are you supposed to be the one to come up with the case number? Shouldn't they be the ones to provide it to you?

    • @terminus9897
      @terminus9897 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That is honestly terrifying that a typo can cause your life to be irreversibly damaged.

    • @FirstnameLastname-jd4uq
      @FirstnameLastname-jd4uq ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@emperorlizZ messed up beyond words

    • @syncopatedglory
      @syncopatedglory 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      i hope you're back on your feet now :c

  • @BillySummers24
    @BillySummers24 2 ปีที่แล้ว +337

    Fun fact: the army actually has a protocol in the case of a zombie outbreak.

    • @exploding_pineapples
      @exploding_pineapples 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      bro i just watched the hai video about it

    • @RighteousCause
      @RighteousCause 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Truth

    • @ec2552
      @ec2552 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      iirc it was reversed during trump's presidency? has it been put in order again?

    • @BillySummers24
      @BillySummers24 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@ec2552 It wasn't ever taken out

    • @trelligan42
      @trelligan42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      It was a thought experiment, written for practice in writing actual protocols by students (or recent graduates) of a war college. Most of the content was pilfered from actual protocols.

  • @onionsilk
    @onionsilk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +284

    Donald Millers resemblance to "Master" McDonald Miller is striking 😂

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Why are we still here ? Just to suffer ?

    • @the_hanged_clown
      @the_hanged_clown 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Gatorade69 42

    • @BigBossTussBall
      @BigBossTussBall 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No Snake, hungry for words!

    • @onionsilk
      @onionsilk 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      hungry for worms!!

  • @haleyhoudini
    @haleyhoudini 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    The illustration of the account clerk will forever haunt my dreams. Her noseless visage follows me.

    • @jacejohnson9394
      @jacejohnson9394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wonderd if anyone else noticed that lol

    • @KryssLaBryn
      @KryssLaBryn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@jacejohnson9394 Their illustrator never gives anyone noses!! It's so weird! XD Everyone looks like Voldemort!

    • @nowelalalalala
      @nowelalalalala 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂

  • @quentinfool
    @quentinfool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    "What do I do if I get legally declared dead?" That's where our sponsor Skillshare can help .....

  • @emieh.4494
    @emieh.4494 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    "You're dead!"
    "No, I'm alive."
    "So you're undead?
    "Yes."
    "THEN YOU MUST BE A ZOMBIE!"

  • @MNbenMN
    @MNbenMN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Yup, That "typo" happened to me last year. Fortunately, I found out a few days later, so it only took a few months to clear up most of it. Still, there are banking repercussions of having been formerly "deceased"

    • @byueul6038
      @byueul6038 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      what was the "typo"?

  • @valentinvasquez761
    @valentinvasquez761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +489

    You guys REALLY have to start drawing noses on your realistic character portraits, because those unholy uncanny valley abominationa you show are the stuff of nightmares

    • @Nick-hv8gj
      @Nick-hv8gj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @Katsuki Bakugou No it isn't. There's nothing funny about someone looking like they've been decomposing for a few months.

    • @liemduongthanh8386
      @liemduongthanh8386 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      they just look like voldemort

    • @valentinvasquez761
      @valentinvasquez761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      It would be the same as drawing everyone realistically and not giving them eyebrows.

    • @valentinvasquez761
      @valentinvasquez761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Worst part is the illustrators did an amazing job with the storybof the man that drank nitro. Then one vid later they go back to the old style

    • @ZoeCat97
      @ZoeCat97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They look like those cloning aliens from Matt Smiths series' of doctor who

  • @bamicinder7635
    @bamicinder7635 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "Hey, I'm alive!"
    *Judge loads shotgun,* "I thought you would say that."

  • @nadyahoffmann5778
    @nadyahoffmann5778 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This happened with an uncle of mine, when I was very little he decided to go mining with some friends, he and his friends disappeared in the Amazonian Rain Forest for almost 10 years, he was declared dead after 5 or 6 years, I don't remember exactly. One day he just showed up at my grandma's house. It turns out he became lost in the jungle and lived with some natives for a while, and then came back on foot home, living in the streets along the way, almost 4.000 kilometers. His luck is that, here in Brazil, is fairly easy to reverse a death certificate. Two of his brothers went with him to a notary's office to prove his identity and they remade his documents, since in Brazil they don't do background checks for most jobs, he had a normal life after this.

  • @babbetteduboise4284
    @babbetteduboise4284 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Most of the 'illegal' deaths comes from funeral directors, typos in hospitals, typos at SSA screwing up your records. I knew about this horror and when my mother died I triple checked that the funeral director reported her SSAN correctly so it didn't happen to someone else..

    • @Lampe2020
      @Lampe2020 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice to see you caring about others even directly after your mother's death!

  • @NiaJustNia
    @NiaJustNia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    A family friend tried to collect her prescription, they informed her that she couldn't as she'd just been declared dead. She asked how tf that's possible, she's standing right there, and the receptionist at the GP surgery was adamant that no, she was definitely deceased. Took weeks to rectify the issue and there was an investigation into how there was only a tick box to declare someone dead on their system. She moved GP practices after that, as you can imagine.

  • @davidroddick91
    @davidroddick91 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I used to work at the CRA (Canada's version of the IRS) and they have a procedure for correcting an incorrect death entered into the system. I even resurrected a guy once. He was a good sport and we were joking and laughing the whole time.
    Fortunately, those people are only dead for tax purposes, so they face none of the complications the people you mention did.

    • @brrrrrr
      @brrrrrr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't know tax collectors were able to resurrect people after they were dead

  • @lohthe1onethegreattchoute210
    @lohthe1onethegreattchoute210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +291

    I love brew's vids so much they are informative and fun so my mom can't say I'm not watching anything educative

    • @howdy983
      @howdy983 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      joe

    • @btkii4387
      @btkii4387 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      bro same

    • @howdy983
      @howdy983 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      e

    • @arfarf8595
      @arfarf8595 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jeff

    • @thugai8150
      @thugai8150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @FlamingToad My favourite so far is when it translated "haha" to "lol" .

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    I went to school with a guy who, a few years before, was crossing a flooded street. He asked his friend a question and failed to get a response turned and saw that his friend was gone. There had not been enough time for the friend to get to a place where he couldn't be seen, especially considering the hip deep water.
    Thinking his friend had tripped on something he back tracked to see if he could find his friend and nearly fell into an open man hole. The manhole led to the storm sewer that, because it carried only storm water drained directly into the bay.
    Though the kid's body was never recovered he was declaimed dead right away, as there was no doubt what had happened to him.
    The currents running through the flooded storm sewer system were quite strong, and from where that man hole was, there was nowhere that you could get out between that manhole and the outlet into the bay.
    I would have taken several minutes to get to the bay, so there was no doubt that he had drowned.

    • @dustinbrueggemann1875
      @dustinbrueggemann1875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It's unfortunate how many people are lost to the hazards of floodwaters every year. It's incredibly easy to underestimate just how dangerous it is to be in a flooded area.

    • @borger298
      @borger298 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      But in this case he actually is dead and wasn’t just declared dead even though being alive

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Who leaves manholes open, even when there aren’t floods that’s extremely dangerous. Also, crossing running water even just hip-deep is also dangerous. If the current is strong enough it can be very low and still take you with it

    • @dustinbrueggemann1875
      @dustinbrueggemann1875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@DeathnoteBB You severely underestimate the power of floodwater. Those covers pop off immediately when the upstream pressure rises. I've personally seen a fountain over a foot high coming from a flooded over manhole.

    • @marklawson5542
      @marklawson5542 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@borger298 and... that's the head scratcher right there🤔

  • @nater1851
    @nater1851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    One of my old teachers was proclaimed “dead”. It was just a mistake/typo when her mother died they put her name on her mother’s death certificate.

  • @CapUct
    @CapUct 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Imagine dying because of a typo

  • @mooselove
    @mooselove 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I learned about this from a poor guy on tiktok who has been fighting for years to recover his life

  • @enriqueaquiahuatl8554
    @enriqueaquiahuatl8554 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    To be fair you can't just accept the person who "came back to life" to be the same person as the one who died, that's how identity theft can happen. But surely there have to be tests to prove it is the same person, or there should be. One can't just go "Sorry, you should have escaped your kidnapper a few years earlier, you are now legally dead and there's nothing we can do about it"

  • @headoverheels899
    @headoverheels899 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Why the real characters are drawn without noses, are they Voldermort’s descendents?

    • @traphousegamer1906
      @traphousegamer1906 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've also wondered this very much since I started watching

  • @twigness
    @twigness 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I hope we all learned something:
    -Double check your spelling
    -Call your loved ones every once in a while so you aren't dead.

  • @kayleighlehrman9566
    @kayleighlehrman9566 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Im genuinely surprised that Grill knows about the Sackville-Bagginses

  • @DrPhilIV
    @DrPhilIV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I’d love to see how the recording/writing process works with this group

  • @grahamwilliamson5306
    @grahamwilliamson5306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Even TH-camrs need 2 weeks paid vacay..welcome back brew!

  • @808ct
    @808ct 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    A new Brew Video to see, intro is interesting off the bat too.

  • @Erik_Emer
    @Erik_Emer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I like how only a portion of the video only covers the "error" part of the typo death, and doesn't even cover how it could happen.
    In Judy's case, her social security number was read wrong. There.

  • @oddatea9099
    @oddatea9099 2 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    I'm so glad this episode wasn't about wrongly prescribed medicines and doses, this was a bit more cheerful?

  • @Adrastia
    @Adrastia ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I remember the Brenda Heist case. Her children want nothing to do with her because she abandoned them when they thought something terrible had happened to her. She was denied housing assistance, which is hard to get anyway in many places because of long waiting lists and a lack of affordable housing. I've been through it and it is completely unacceptable in a country like the US. But she ended up homeless anyway because she joined some drifters. I understand it was a mental breakdown and I've known people who chose to be homeless due to mental illness that they refused to treat. Sadly those people both died of hypothermia despite being offered housing by their family. So Brenda Heist must have been in a very bad place in order to choose to stay homeless and without contact to her children.

  • @arhamtajwar65
    @arhamtajwar65 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Welp I guess I won’t ever make a typo again…

  • @raijuko
    @raijuko 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Loved this topic for a video. These odd facts are always enlightening to those little parts of life we aren't often shown or never think about. Your doing God's work Brew

  • @TrippyTrash_Loser
    @TrippyTrash_Loser ปีที่แล้ว +17

    People are used to me vanishing for long periods of time so it would take at least a few years for anyone to worry. I stopped disappearing from home but I still disappear online occasionally. It’s just who I am. Rovers gotta wander.

    • @internet_user975
      @internet_user975 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you visit the backrooms once in a while

  • @Chatteneko
    @Chatteneko ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I love how Brew is behind the couch with Grill and Quiz, not some empty couch to give it more life! feels like a group of friends telling bizarre stories to each other and it's cute and warming
    really love this episode too, it's kinda scary how you can be legally dead, even if you show up alive

  • @I1p
    @I1p ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love that you added “Quiz” to the video! She only has a few video’s that she is in, so I am glad she is in this one!

  • @sagacious03
    @sagacious03 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

  • @designerwookiee
    @designerwookiee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    And so the seeds of a new source of anxiety was sown amongst the masses...

  • @RyanVJones
    @RyanVJones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If that happened to me I would open a funeral home. Avoids the potential skepticism of a future employer and makes me immensely qualified to run the business

  • @KarmaCifer
    @KarmaCifer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    So... what is the typo that causes this, what were they trying to write and who (can change your alive status)? Maybe it's because I'm not a native english speaker, but I didn't really get why this is a typo or what kind of typo, because I relate that to making a mistake while writing something.

    • @amberkat8147
      @amberkat8147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I wouldn't complain if the people handling my student loan thought I was dead, but anyone more important would be bad news.

    • @hannahk1306
      @hannahk1306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'm guessing that someone accidentally changes a field in an official database that says you're dead? I'm not quite sure how you do this accidentally though - surely the system should ask for date of death and evidence, i.e. a death certificate?

    • @puudathemeow5593
      @puudathemeow5593 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@hannahk1306 In Sweden this happened recently, the doctors can just type in the name in a database and get a list with all the people with that name. Then they have to click on the name and they can declare them dead further down on that page. The doctor in Sweden declared the wrong person dead because she was lazy and didn't check the date of birth and other info, so an elderly lady with the same name as the deceased was suddenly without banking accounts and got into lots of problems just because of that. I don't know how it works in other countries but the systems are probably similar.

  • @dreamingahopefuldream4439
    @dreamingahopefuldream4439 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Definitely not as intense as being declared dead but some person got my birthdate wrong for my social security. It took forever to get it fixed too

  • @jesse_cantcook
    @jesse_cantcook 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    New Brew upload :0
    My night has been made

  • @Monsuco
    @Monsuco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Didn't you have yourself declared legally dead for tax purposes?" "Tax purposes shmax purposes. You take one nap in a ditch and they start declaring you this and that."

  • @cayladevelbiss9337
    @cayladevelbiss9337 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Brew I like this so cool, also I'm really glad to see that your doing ok.

  • @lonelycea8126
    @lonelycea8126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    my stepdad is legally dead. He still goes to work every day, and i see him every day. No clue why he's legally dead, but i can now say "my stepdad is a zombie", and i'll be right!

  • @nabra97
    @nabra97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I have heard that committing a minor crime can help (you have to be considered alive if you are considered a criminal). But I'm not sure it actually works (and where it does), and it isn't good advice in any case.

  • @optimisticwatermelon
    @optimisticwatermelon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "Judge, I'm uh.. not dead."
    The judge, pulling out a handgun: *"I'll make sure to change that."*

  • @tardvandecluntproductions1278
    @tardvandecluntproductions1278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    This sounds like a very much US and developing nation problem. Where you can live a long time without needing any government check of not being legally dead, (say stuff connected to your ID, drivers license and everywhere it basically needs a connection with a government database).
    Here in most EU nations? Good luck! Can't rent, can't get a hotel, can't get salary (legally).

    • @juliannah5721
      @juliannah5721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      No, this is clearly NOT a regular US problem. Most Americans don't run off and join homeless hitchhikers, nor do most of us have to deal with typos. We all daily deal with "sTufF cOnNeCteD tO oUr ID", too 🤣.
      Your "European better than" is showing.

    • @NEPAAlchey
      @NEPAAlchey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@juliannah5721 Hard disagree, you'd be surprised how many people in the US don't have ID. It also doesn't matter if a typo gets you marked deceased.

    • @cericat
      @cericat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@NEPAAlchey yeah especially the surviving silent generation members, it wasn't a requirement that births outside hospitals be registered with BDM pre WW2 in a lot of places so you hear every so often of an octogenarian who is running into issues just trying to start a bank account after their partner has passed or wanting to vote and not being able to get on the rolls because of it.

    • @Jynx9921
      @Jynx9921 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@juliannah5721 You sound very bitter girl... what european hurt you?

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The US absolutely needs an ID lol?

  • @corpsepatty6730
    @corpsepatty6730 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Therapist: Noseless Brenda Heist isn't real, she can't hurt you.
    Noseless Brenda Heist:

    • @DeitiesDogma
      @DeitiesDogma 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ngl, i don't think brenda wanted to be drawn like that

    • @corpsepatty6730
      @corpsepatty6730 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DeitiesDogma would nostrils make it better or worse?

    • @DeitiesDogma
      @DeitiesDogma 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@corpsepatty6730 Scarier lol

    • @corpsepatty6730
      @corpsepatty6730 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DeitiesDogma maybe they should draw them all with medical masks, so you can't see their missing noses.

  • @z4gee12
    @z4gee12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Reliu: I'm alive!! Why don't you just let me live my life?!?
    Court: nah dude, too late you're already legally dead.. even though you actually aren't lol

  • @sir.sherman-8925
    @sir.sherman-8925 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When is the next "On The Hill" episode coming out? I am really excited!

  • @justchannelpro5010
    @justchannelpro5010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just gotta say the intros are Killer, i love it!

  • @moomoopoopoo2696
    @moomoopoopoo2696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Zombies are just ghosts that clung on to their flesh

  • @kolinmartz
    @kolinmartz ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I feel like if it was a keystroke error, who ever made that error should be liable for any trouble you have afterwards.

  • @FinalQueue007
    @FinalQueue007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I found it more interesting that even a ex wife is higher on the hierarchy then your parents. Never been married so i dont know all the legal stuff that come with it, but you would think if your lover/former lover claims you are dead and files a report, your mom or dad would at least be contacted to confirm or something (assuming theyre alive)

  • @TheScottishRoots
    @TheScottishRoots 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    These videos keep me going 😅

  • @induunni2158
    @induunni2158 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    This freshly brewed coffe is pretty good

  • @zachherskovitz6162
    @zachherskovitz6162 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Had a question, but can’t find the answer. If you are declared legally dead, are you above any laws, and can then commit any crime? Curious

    • @mattwhaley1865
      @mattwhaley1865 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Only one way to find out

    • @orangecat9559
      @orangecat9559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@mattwhaley1865 *commits arson*

    • @Grandosco
      @Grandosco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Totally guessing here, but were you to commit some crime, then you would (legally) be considered a "harmful force" rather than a person, and so any and all amount of retribution could be thrown at you with zero (legal) consequences.
      Could be wrong though! It's a good question.

    • @The_Copper_Element_Itself
      @The_Copper_Element_Itself 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@Grandosco that's like an animal invading a town and doing chaos. It won't go to a tribunal but would get something. An animal is sent to animal cares or the nature. A person could go to some prison or smth

    • @boldCactuslad
      @boldCactuslad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Objection! My client can't be the murderer, because... He is legally dead!
      *gasp*

  • @worldofrk9858
    @worldofrk9858 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    There are many cases like those in India too, in most of the cases the culprits were the relatives or friends , who declared an individual dead just in order to get their all the belongings , and the sad thing is that in most of the cases the individual never got his or her identity back .

    • @fay4967
      @fay4967 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's so messed up :(

  • @IRazor90sYT
    @IRazor90sYT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    amazing video!

  • @ZoshDoesStuff
    @ZoshDoesStuff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A coincidental upload by Half as Intersting and Brew? The perfect day

  • @dr_ned_flanders
    @dr_ned_flanders 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I get it that the main characters don't have noses but please draw them in for cartoon depictions of real people it looks so odd.

  • @fallingspark2258
    @fallingspark2258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Therapist: Realistic drawings of people lacking noses cant hurt you
    Me, religiously watching Brew for the great vids: *screams in horror*
    For real though, I love the vids, but why no noses? The lack is really off putting XD

    • @shadowkev101
      @shadowkev101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They don't want the characters to feel left out without noses

    • @mamagoosey
      @mamagoosey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Who nose?
      *badumtish*

    • @chromaticstar7303
      @chromaticstar7303 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mamagoosey Get out.

    • @Ferroes
      @Ferroes 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're drawing xenos Tau. Heretical.

  • @alib4477
    @alib4477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Can't get used to the Voldemort style art XD

  • @simonruszczak5563
    @simonruszczak5563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The man who missed the deadline should have been given a lifeline.

  • @miajar
    @miajar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love seeing Grill and Quiz just chilling together

  • @andrewcorrea2228
    @andrewcorrea2228 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wanted to throw out a video idea for you. I have a condition known as Aphantisa, or a lack of the "minds eye." I think a video going into this condition might be helpful because most people, including myself, don't even know this exists even if they have it.

  • @nickharrison1477
    @nickharrison1477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    THE KING IS BACK

  • @frost3170
    @frost3170 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey brew, I love your videos.

  • @hart-of-gold
    @hart-of-gold 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I knew somebody who was registered dead when they were a child. They didn't know until they were trying to get a passport, it took a few months to clear up but didn't cause any other problems because it was the late 80's.

  • @tom4ivo
    @tom4ivo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It'd probably be easier to simply have a new identity created for oneself, like people in the witness protection program.

  • @beyond_thebest965
    @beyond_thebest965 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like these types of vids, it’s like the meme, when you look something up out of your own curiosity 😊 and when you have to learn it in school 😤

  • @kathrynsmith9893
    @kathrynsmith9893 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My dad once got a piece of mail from the hospital claiming he was dead. He called the hospital and they apologized, telling him some glitch or typo had caused their system to register like 20-30 patients as deceased. They fixed it and it was fine. Gave us all a good laugh. 😄

  • @potat5140
    @potat5140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As a romanian, this case was hilarious to all of us. Sadly, it's not like we have only one case of this, it's insane how often they say a person died then we find out it's someone else.

  • @MilnaAlen
    @MilnaAlen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That's why I like that in Finland you don't need to get your partner to sign divorce papers, just one person can file and get divorced on their own.

  • @RainK4st
    @RainK4st 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I learn more watching these videos than I do anywhere else

  • @MyNathanking
    @MyNathanking 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:15: The fact that you would mention Lititz, Pennsylvania is impressive because I live there. So you're talking about something that happened in my local area --- though it happened before I moved there.

  • @beargreen1
    @beargreen1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A simple typo is all it takes to ruin someone's life

  • @THE_PLAYER_ZER0
    @THE_PLAYER_ZER0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Hey, how do you make hooks that good?

  • @princeofalbany
    @princeofalbany ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is why I'd never just leave and not tell anyone where I was. Knowing that somebody could just declare me legally dead scares me.

  • @Bluemayhem2012
    @Bluemayhem2012 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you brew. First I was scared of office chairs and now I'm scared of existing

  • @AndrewCheshire
    @AndrewCheshire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That subtle knowledge of The Hobbit that Grill just threw out there... Very nice.

  • @horrorkesh
    @horrorkesh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    there's a guy I know a family friend who was declared dead he's been fighting against this claim for a few years now he's had to fight to get any of his taxes back as well as the stimulus's

    • @wolfetteplays8894
      @wolfetteplays8894 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s worth it not having to pay taxes though

  • @yeahman70
    @yeahman70 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:13 me when Iron Triangle Railpark Fostoria, OH, railroad triangle of the B&O, C&O and NKP now CSX and NS, one of the best train watching spots I have ever been to

  • @chassinoir
    @chassinoir ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A patient at the pharmacy had this done to him; the government made a mistake a claimed he was legally dead. He was still having trouble with fighting for his right to be alive when I quit.

  • @siuu2123.
    @siuu2123. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    lets go a new brew video!

  • @TheSurrealBoye
    @TheSurrealBoye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Quiz and Grill get along surprisingly well

  • @DOGMANCOMIX
    @DOGMANCOMIX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wish Grill and Chill were in the same video again, I miss em hanging out!

  • @melody3741
    @melody3741 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You sound so absolutely done with that intro and that pun