So this was long enough ago and ridiculous enough ago that to me it is less devastating and more absurd (though it certainly did not feel like it at the time), and I am curious if folks know how this happened / how common this is.
My step grandmother is absolutely nuts / really awful, and between those two things a lot of false things got put on his death certificate.
It got mailed to me versus my father (who was dealing with most of this) because he lives outside of the country, and I remember getting it in the mail and opening it and seeing all of this bananas stuff like that he had been in the military (he had not) and that his first wife's name (my dad's mother) was incorrect, but in a really rude and obvious way, and it was a mess. His middle name was wrong. I remember calling my dad and hearing his jaw drop over the phone.
I can't remember all of the details of what happened because it got passed off to someone else at some point and it was years ago (and I am not sure if my dad would want to talk about it), but I would be interested in learning more about how these kinds of things happen. I imagine some proof of identification and documentation is generally needed to get information for this kind of thing?