In Bucharest,  Romania, Constantin Reliu, 63, was declared dead by his wife in 2016 after he moved to Turkey in 1992, losing all contact with his family. When Turkish officials found he had expired papers and deported him back to Romania, he found that he was not only dead to his wife, but also to his country.

When Reliu attempted to appeal the Death Certificate, the courts denied his claims that he was alive because he applied for the appeal too late.

“I am officially dead, although I’m alive,” Reliu told local media outlets. “I have no income and because I am listed dead, I can’t do anything.”

Shortly after this incident happened, Romania proved its inefficiency when weeding out the dead from the living. Last year, Valerian Vasiliu appealed to a court in Iasi in north-eastern Romania against losing his licence after being caught speeding. Vasiliu received what he desired, with one problem: he died a few days after the original decision.

Despite his untimely death, the police still believed it was necessary to try to overturn the decision; after all, who knows what this man could’ve done? The Court upheld the ruling, and granted a dead man a Drivers License.