You'd be amazed by the high number of people who are legally dead and how hard it makes the lives of them and their families. Literally no legal framework is properly prepared to acknowledge mistaken death cases and reinstating the legal personhood of someone declared legally dead. There's a story of one of them in India who formed an association of dead people, and got up to weird shenanigans to try and pressure the courts to declare him alive again. Including organizing and assisting to his own funeral, suing the state for his wife widower pension, getting himself arrested to force authorities to produce papers, and running for a local office election. There's a movie about him called, Kaagaz (2021). And he won an IgNobel price for his efforts to make mistaken death more visible.

Man was dead for almost 20 years, but he got better.

Sounds great to me. You don't have to pay taxes. You can't be arrested, because you can't arrest a dead person. You can do anything you want to do. It's just like being dead, but alive to experience it.

Sorry, but can you prove you've continuously occupied this body for the last 20 years?

If the dude is legally dead, he can go rob a bank or something and they cannot prosecute him because he is dead. Just saying..

He forgot the bribe. It's Romania, always tip your government server.

My most infuriating feeling about this is how a bureaucracy will slip in how everyone else fails upon not seeing their own shortsightedness coming at them.

"You take one nap in a ditch in the park, and people start declaring you this and that!"

The late Constantin Reliu.