Prove you're alive

In another of those bureaucratic nightmare cases that sound like they're straight from the movie Brazil, a German pensioner has been forced to prove that she was still alive after her pension fund cut off her payments because she was dead. A phone call wasn't enough, she had to produce a life certificate.

Personally, if I was in that position I'd storm down there and kick the guy in the nurries. That ought to prove that either I'm alive or a particularly nasty ghost that shouldn't be fucked with.