Juana Escudero can count herself among the living dead. Escudero, apparently the unfortunate victim of a governmental clerical error dating back about seven years, has been unable to go to a doctor or renew her driver’s license because all government databases show her as being deceased. Escudero believes that the confusion started when a woman sharing her exact name and date of birth passed away in 2010. It seems as though the similarities in their descriptions led to an administrative mistake at the Social Security office that marked her as dead. Escudero has fought with various agencies to prove her status among the living, but her voice seems powerless to penetrate the government bureaucracy from beyond her suspiciously shallow grave.
See Spanish Woman Wants to Open up Grave to Prove She’s Alive, Fox News, September 27, 2017.
