I received the following in my hotmail this morning, and thought that the efforts of these unfortunates deserved to have a word coined for them What would be an apt neologism for "efforts made to prove that one is really alive"? I'm confident that between them, NicholasW and tsuwm will find a word already coined, probably from Webster's Concise Palaeo-Ugritic/Neanderthal-CroMagnon book of verse, 3rd Edition, pbk
The Continuing Crisis: An October New York Times dispatch from
India highlighted the growing problem of intra-family frauds in
which one member will claim a living relative's land or wealth
by swearing to the government that the relative is dead. An
advocacy group, the Association of Dead People, helps aggrieved
citizens figure out just how to prove that they are indeed alive,
which can be a difficult concept for India's bargelike bureau-
cracies to accept. The association's founder said he remained
officially dead even after he ran for office, filed lawsuits
and got arrested just to get his name on public records.
