Finding a job is tough these days, especially if your rec-
ords say you are dead. Unemployed driver Marcio Freitas da
Silva of Brazil discovered this when he tried to find a job.
The problem came in when another man of the same name and
age died three years ago, coroners wrote the names of the
living da Silva's parents on the death certificate. "It's
a humiliating situation when others make mistakes and I have
to prove that I'm alive," da Silva said. He had been told
that a dead man "cannont drive vehicles on federal high-
ways." Although the civil registry office has revitalized
da Silva, most government offices have not yet received the
new documents.