More Than 7,000 People Are ‘Declared Dead’ By Mistake Every Year: One Woman’s Story

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — When one woman discovered that her bank account had emptied overnight she soon found out that was the least of her problems.
She had been “declared dead”, and that was only the beginning of her nightmare.
Imagine waking up one day to find your bank account empty. You know it’s wrong, but when you try to fix it, the bank says “you’re dead,”.
“I freaked,” Ellen said.
Ellen Baron is a retired social worker who lives in Crofton.