Your Dead!

[Nagash]

just read this news story and was weirdly amusing...

A health trust has launched an investigation after a cancer patient was allegedly told he could not book a hospital appointment - because he was dead.

Alan Campbell, 63, received the startling information from a telephone operator when he tried to set a date to see a doctor.

The former lorry driver, of Little Harwood, Blackburn, Lancashire, has had three operations to treat skin cancer on his cheek and nose.

When he started having throat pains, he became worried the disease might have spread.

His GP gave him a code to arrange an appointment with the NHS Choose and Book system, but a telephone operator told him he could not set a date because their records showed he was "deceased".

Mr Campbell, who has also survived a stroke and a heart attack, said: "I rang on Saturday and was told I could see a consultant on June 29.

"But then they said, 'Sorry, we can't give you an appointment, our records show you are deceased'.

"I said you're joking, I'm only 63, I'm talking to you, aren't I?' But they said 'you'll have to go back to your GP on Monday to get it sorted out'.

"I couldn't believe it. I was flabbergasted.

"I'm not one for complaining, but when somebody says you're dead it's not on."

gotta love that last line

[Emmz]

yeh i read that from aanother forum as the girls partner had this letter

DH got a letter from tax credits today notifying him that they had received a change of status from us - apparently I died in August last year!
She is Very much alive but its along the same lines

[Nagash]

f'n council's

[Weissberv]

Saw this on a metro newspaper.

[Nagash]

The Metro is kewl, but nah, got it from Yahoo's news

[Emmz]

yeh i saw it on yahoo news as well. Maybe the online mum friend would sell her story too lol

[Damz]

My kids get Polling cards. Thinking about taking my 5 year old to vote. Funny thing is because they're wrongly on register it means people phone up asking for them (cold callers etc etc). We have on occasion put the youngest on the phone to them, needless to say the calls don't last very long

[Emmz]

makes me wonder how the hell they can fabricate such stories.
For the death ones i imagine the people involved could find it distressing at first then at a laterr date find it amusing.
Thankfully it hasnt happened to us yet

[Nagash]

wouldbe so tempting to committ some kind of crime, like rob a bank or something, purposely leave loadsa evidence that it's you, and then when it goes to court, you get out of it because the council have proof that you were dead at the time, and therefore it was impossible for you to committ the crime.