The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.

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In one instance, she penned a false recommendation letter and signed the name of a deceased Georgetown University Law Center professor.

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Some debts, such as a legal judgment or credit cards in the name of the deceased only, may not have to be paid.

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But the science team on Curiosity needed a target to try out the first close-contact work using the rover's arm-held X-ray-spectrometer, APXS. So the dark pyramid was chosen and informally given the name Jake Matijevic in honour of a recently deceased rover engineer.

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Authorities were withholding the deceased man's name while they notified next of kin.

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Biden and other law enforcement authorities would not publicly name the shooter or the deceased, saying that they wanted to continue with the process of their investigation first.

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In most states, the law requires families to follow properly-recorded written burial and funeral instructions of the person who passed, or at least allows the deceased person to name an agent in writing to carry out those wishes.

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It was spam, of course, but it was quite personalized, with my last name being the connection between me the unfortunately deceased millionaire.

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