Re: Manifest (2018), The 4400 (2004)/Death in Absentia 

How can someone be declared dead without a body?  What happens if someone who was declared dead is still alive?

Sources:

Social Security Administration Handbook, Sec. 1721.

New York Consolidated Laws.  Estates, Powers, and Trusts Law, Sec. 2-1.7.

Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes. Title 10, Chapter 57, Absentees and Presumed Decedents.

“Presumption of Death” Wikipedia.

Jeanne Carriere.  "The Rights of the Living Dead: Absent Persons in Civil Law" 50 Louisiana Law Review 901 (1990).

Donald Miller Story

https://www.postcrescent.com/story/money/2017/11/18/reports-mans-death-were-greatly-exaggerated/874110001/

Benjamin Holmes Story

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001203mag-thernstrom.html

Brenda Heist Story

https://abcnews.go.com/US/runaway-moms-husband-facing-insurance-payout-fight/story?id=19102738

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