I wish I could use the service like this....its always good to know if you are dead or alive.

Alive Status Verification SMS Service got my attention on textually.org.

One of the strangest SMS offers to ever cross my desk is South Africa's "Alive Status Verification" SMS Service launched this Monday by Home Affairs which allows citizens to find out whether they are officially dead or alive.

The purpose of the service is assist South Africans to check their status to ensure that they have not been fraudulently declared dead on the population register," the department said in a statement.It did not elaborate on why anyone would be fraudulently declared dead
Full press release<http://www.dha.gov.za/media_releases.asp?id=519>.