Description

Online hoaxes, misidentification of bodies, and faking your own death can all lead to a premature obituary. Julie leads us through how this happens, some wild stories surrounding being "dead not dead" and how one premature obituary changed the course of history,

Sources used in today's episode:

https://www.history.com/news/did-a-premature-obituary-inspire-the-nobel-prize

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/14/alfred-nobel-created-the-nobel-prize-as-a-false-obituary-declared-him-the-merchant-of-death/#:~:text=Alfred%20Nobel%20had%20the%20unpleasant,newspaper%20mistakenly%20published%20Alfreds%20obituary.&text=To%20Alfred%2C%20this%20obituary%20was%20a%20warning

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Nobel

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/swedish-inventor-alfred-nobel-was-spurred-by-his-obituary-to-create-the-nobel-prize/news-story/c134de38fb4f3ebefef06b211b0527d5

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/french-broadcaster-apologises-after-killing-off-queen-and-pele

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19650210&id=C00fAAAAIBAJ&pg=6932,2562925

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0824535020110108

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/09/14/la-man-misidentified-as-dead-found-safe/

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/08/10/489318279/social-security-data-errors-can-turn-people-into-the-living-dead

https://archive.org/details/variety148-1942-12/page/n57/mode/2up

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/apr/19/george-soros-buried-alive-premature-obituaries