A 23-year-old was declared dead, his ashes were given to the family - then it was discovered that he was alive/jddelay5150
This is a truly amazing story about Tyler Chase, a 23-year-old man from Oregon, who was declared dead and suddenly "resurrected" mysteriously - after his family had already received death certificates and an urn with his ashes after his body was cremated.
Chase was a homeless drug addict and out of touch with his family.
He was pronounced dead from an overdose, while living on the streets before being transferred to a special center for a rehab program.
But, in an almost unimaginable twist, when he came to collect his food assistance benefits in October he discovered they were invalid because he had 'died'.
He contacted the welfare authorities to get explanations.
The officials, who were as confused as he was, demanded that he see his ID card.
"They said to me - 'Can I see identification documents?', "So I gave them," he explained in an interview with the FOX network. "They looked just as confused as I was and told me that 'Here in our summaries it says that you are dead,'" he added.
But it is not Well, it turns out that Chase's family, who had been unable to contact him, received an urn of his ashes after his body was allegedly cremated and his death certificates.On December 19, welfare officials found him at the rehabilitation center and admitted that a terrible mistake had been made about him.
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As NBC reported, Multnomah County coroners mistakenly identified the body of a deceased person as Chase's and later contacted Chase's family about his death.
It turns out that a man who stole Chase's wallet at the rehab center was the man who died.
In the post-mortem examinations of this man they provisionally identified him by the card they found in Chase's wallet and therefore concluded that the deceased was Chase.
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The Oregon authorities took responsibility for the serious mistake and the district spokesman apologized: "We are deeply sorry for the confusion that was created. The mistake happened because the man who died was carrying Chase's wallet and also his temporary driver's license."
In Oregon, they learned lessons and made it clear that in the future they will also use fingerprints to identify the body and not just documents.
The wrong has already been done to Chase, but at least his family is very happy about this mistake.
Latasha Rosales, Chase's cousin, said in an interview with KGW after the mistake was discovered: "I just lost it. It's so hard to believe how something like this could happen. It just doesn't make sense."
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