YOU would think that it would be difficult to have someone officially declared dead.
However a long-running dispute between a cleaner and her former boss, Jeanne Pouchain, and a combination of judicial errors led to a ruling that Pouchain was no longer among the living in 2017.
Despite being very much alive, Pouchain's "dead" status has prevented her and her husband from accessing their joint bank account, leading authorities to seize her car over an unpaid debt which she has contested, Associated Press reports.
"I no longer exist," she said.
"I don't do anything...I sit on the veranda and write."
Adding insult to injury, Pouchain's husband and son were ordered to pay the disgruntled former employee $22,000 in compensation.
In a fresh bid to revive Pouchain's life, her lawyer submitted an application to invalidate the 2017 decision, describing it as a "grave error".
Pouchain said the appeal was her "last chance to recover my life".
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