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My Featured Blogger this week is Thomas Bonich of Common Sense Tom. Tom’s overall theme is right there in his title. But more specifically, his stated goal is to “champion critical thinking, human dignity, equality, levelheadedness, even-handed, liberty-based governance and solid environmental stewardship.” No small task! But what grabbed my attention this week was this intriguing real-life murder mystery with a twist. Read on and see why!
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One spring morning, many decades ago, my Mom had handed me an edition of our local newspaper neatly folded to “frame” an obituary. She’d been wondering if the deceased had been a college buddy of mine.
The deceased’s name certainly was common enough so it could’ve been someone else… but… as I began to read, I could sense my eyes widening and jaw dropping. As surreal as this all was, the in-print particulars had left no “i” undotted; no “t” uncrossed.
Indeed, this was the same guy… we had been enrolled in the same broadcasting courses, worked together in the recording studio and eventually earned our degrees. And now… there I was reading the two paragraph final chapter to his all too short life. Short story even shorter… while my 27-year-young photographer friend was on a photo shoot assignment up in Canada, he had suffered a fatal heart attack.
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Mitch Teemley 
That’s just crazy, to say the least..
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Sure is, Mya. Now that you mention it, I do believe a bit of craziness was in the emotional mix.
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Great story and Tom tells it well, Thanks, Mitch
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Thanks for reading and commenting, John.
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My pleasure.
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It’s been fun chatting.
Enjoy the rest of the day
Take Care!
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The real mess is if the actually was officially labeled dead…apparently, it is a huge hassle to get the paperwork issued to be labled live…it does, however offer the opportunity to join the French Foreign Legion and adopt and alias. 😉
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oops…if he actually was officially labelled dead.
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I’m not sure about the rest of his paperwork, but the newspaper obit certainly looked official and final enough.
I appreciate your reading and commenting.
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Generally someone has to file paperwork declaring someone dead to have it ‘official’…and once that is done, you’re essentially dead and from the few times I’ve heard of it happening, it’s a case of the nightmare has just begun. It actually does happen and it appears to be a nightmare when it gets to the Government paperwork.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/mother-accidentally-declared-dead-by-the-cra-son-says-1.5398079
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Thank you, ejstoo, for raising my / our awareness, via your learned comment and informative linked article.
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