Online hoaxes, misidentification of bodies, and faking your own death can all lead to a premature obituary. Julie leads us through how this happens, some wild stories surrounding being "dead not dead" and how one premature obituary changed the course of history,

Sources used in today's episode:

https://www.history.com/news/did-a-premature-obituary-inspire-the-nobel-prize

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/14/alfred-nobel-c ...