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* There's an episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' in which Blanche's spurned boyfriend, an obituary editor, runs her obituary to get back at her. Blanche is more upset that he claimed she was 68 than being listed as dead.
* One ''[[My Two Dads]]'' episode has a typo in an obituary causing everyone to think Joey was dead. He goes along with it for a while to sell art, because [[Dead Artists Are Better]].
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Doppelgangland," in which meeting Vamp Willow causes [[Angel]] to report that Willow is dead. He then
* In the ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
* In ''[[Coronation Street]]'' Jerry's father put his own obituary in the newspaper.
* The eventually-[[Back from the Dead|oft-killed]] Daniel Jackson had this happen to him in an early episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' -- they hold a eulogy for him and start going through his stuff before they realize they've just been tricked into ''thinking'' he's dead. And at the beginning of season 7, he reclaims a good many items which Jonas Quinn was using... ''You weren't using them'' was Jonas' ([[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|understandable]]) explanation.
** Of course, he differs from most of these examples in that most of the time he ''actually was'' dead. Later on, though, his teammates get [[Genre Savvy]] about it, and O'Neill outright ''refuses'' to hold a memorial service one of the
* Archie Bunker was misreported as dead by the Veterans Administration for one episode of ''[[All in The Family]].''
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', John Sheridan was thought to be dead. "I was. I got better." He spends a long time cleaning up the consequences of this.
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* ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': "I see that the rumors of your demise were unfounded."
* Happens on more than one occasion in ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** The Series 2 two-part finale [[Doctor Who/Recap/S28/E12 Army of Ghosts|"Army Of Ghosts"]]/[[Doctor Who/Recap/S28/E13 Doomsday|Doomsday]] begins with a voiceover from Rose [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|telling the viewer]] "this is the story of how I died." At the conclusion, it's revealed that she's actually alive and stuck in a parallel universe, but she's been declared legally dead in our universe.
** In the Series 5 finale [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E13 The Big Bang|"The Big Bang"]], the Doctor, Amy and Rory meet a mortally wounded version of the Doctor from 12 minutes into the future, and watch him die. Turns out he was only faking it to allow the trio to create a diversion for 12 minutes, allowing the future-Doctor to [[The Slow Path|use those 12 minutes]] to wire up the Pandorica.
* Jonathan Doors is shot by a sniper in the pilot of ''[[Earth The Final Conflict]]'', protecting the Taelon ambassador Da'an. Turns out, it was all a setup. The sniper was working for Doors and was shooting blanks, as was the doctor who confirmed his death. The goal was to set up [[La Résistance]] to figure out the real reason the Taelons came to Earth. A few episodes later, Doors publicly outs himself, using a similar line to this trope.
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* Britney Spears' Myspace page was recently{{when}} hacked (or so they claim) with a fake death announcement.
* In India, it's popular to bribe an official to declare a relative dead so that you can inherit his property. It has all the advantages of murder without the unpleasant messiness.
** [http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/24/world/24INDI.html?ex=1083211200&en=3394201d75ddfea1&ei=5070 Lal Bihari] had this happen to him and it took him years to literally get his life back. He was awarded an [https://web.archive.org/web/20190604012502/http://improbable.com/ig/ Ignobel Prize] for his foundation of the Association of Dead People. One tactic of Association members is to get arrested at protests, leaving the authorities to explain how dead people can be arrested.
* On June 25, 2009, Jeff Goldblum was reported dead of a fall on a movie set in New Zealand. On June 30, 2009, Jeff Goldblum went on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' (on which he had made several appearances) to deny the ([[Captain Obvious|fake]]) reports of his death. He then subsequently caved to the evidence, ([[Reality Is Unrealistic|news program clips reporting his death]]) [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/220019/june-29-2009/jeff-goldblum-will-be-missed confirmed his own death, and gave his own "eulogy."]
* In the aftermath of the [[Velvet Revolution|17th November 1989 demonstration]], a rumor has spread that a student named Martin Šmíd was killed during the event. This turned to be a misinformation; a student of that name was at the demonstration, but left before the police intervention began. He was interviewed in the television, presumably to dispel the rumor...and the transmission started at just the wrong moment when he was saying, referring to the events of the day: "Death touched me." (In case this figure of speech doesn't translate well to English, he meant: "I was horrified.")
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