Spaniard Mar?a Antonia Calvo may be a human version of Schroedinger’s fanciful cat — being simultaneously dead, alive, or both. A February 10, 2006 Guardian report tells the story:
After 12 years of death, Spaniard Mar?a Antonia Calvo was yesterday able to celebrate her official return to life. She was mistakenly registered as dead by a Barcelona court in 1994. Four years later she managed to prove she was alive, but with no cases of rebirth in the rule book, an impasse was reached. She even went on to have a child – who was, following bureaucratic logic, declared an orphan….
(Thanks to Adiyasa Dwitama for bringing this to our attention.)