Mum, 39, finds personal obituary on net and has to inform friends ‘I’m not lifeless’
A mum received calls from concerned friends after her obituary was accidentally published online.
Faye Finaro, 39, was shocked to see her name and photo appear on the obit section of the Mansfield Chad with an option to send flowers to her bereaved family.
She only spotted it when a friend called her to “check she wasn’t dead” after they spotted the page on the “Legacy” section of the website.
After reassuring her friends she was very much alive with a post on Facebook she emailed the website to let them know she was still alive.
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Beauty business owner Faye thinks a post on the websites ‘celebration’ section on her new business in 2022 got mixed up with the site’s legacy section.
(Image: Faye Finaro / SWNS)
Faye, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, who saw the funny side, said: “I might have 30 days of flowers coming!
“It was a standard day in my life when I got a call from a friend asking me if I was alive. My friend was quite concerned.
“I posted it on Facebook and quite a few people commented and thought it was hilarious – my son found it really funny.
“I believe what’s happened is there must have been some crossover with the celebrations page they were doing and all the photos and captions were left in the database before they were outsourced to Legacy. God knows how long it was there!
(Image: Faye Finaro / SWNS)
“Anyway, it was great when they told me they’d removed it – I’m not dead anymore!”
Faye has recently won an award for her business, and her friend was looking for a news story on the win, when she came across the obituary page, last Tuesday.
A screenshot of the site shows a picture of Faye with the headline ‘Faye Finaro Obituary’ alongside an option to ‘send flowers’.
Faye was told the obituary may take up to 30 days to disappear from search results.
A spokesperson for Legacy said: “We are indeed aware of the issue and we are in correspondence with Ms. Finaro about the matter.”
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