And Andy Borowitz has a truly frightening story about someone who had been thought dead, but is perhaps still alive.

I didn't know he ever was in the first place. I guess it depends on what your definition of "alive" is.

Al Gore was only alive in the sense that Howdy Doody was alive. Al's strings were being pulled by the great Democratic Puppet Show started on his behalf by his father.
OR Maybe AG is a computer generated image, however, given the fact that he created the interet my argument seems circular. But then again, AG is a little more circular himself these days!!
(I'm fat I can make that joke/observation!!)