British woman who's very much alive shocked to read her obituary online

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It’s a rare day when anyone gets to read their obituary, for obvious reasons.

But a 39-year-old woman from Nottingham, England got the shock of her, uh, life when she found her name and photo in the online obituary section of the Mansfield Chad newspaper, according to foxnews.com.

Faye Finaro only saw her obit after a friend called to make sure “she wasn’t dead” after seeing her name in the “Legacy” section of the paper, according to UK Metro. The obit even had an option to send flowers to Finaro’s grieving family.

“I might have 30 days of flowers coming,” Finaro told Metro. “It was a standard day in my life when I got a call from a friend asking me if I was alive.

“My friend was quite concerned. I posted it on Facebook and quite a few people commented and thought it was hilarious – my son found it really funny.”

Finaro asked to have the obituary taken down online, saying she was the “only person in the world” with her name and the death notice was causing friends to become concerned. The newspaper agreed to take down the obit but told her it could still appear in search engine results for 30 days.

According to Metro, Finaro believes it was a simple case of a post celebrating her new business mistakenly being published with the obituaries.

“(Two) years ago, a celebration was sent in to the Mansfield Chad website congratulating me on my business launch,” she wrote to the newspaper. “It appears this section of the Chad is merged now with the legacy obituaries, and it is showing that I am dead.”