It’s not in the raising of Lazarus class, but the US Veterans Administration’s computers kill people with such lethal frequency that the VA is becoming a dab hand at raising them from the dead: Ruth McLaughlin of Fairport, New York, a 64-year-old legally blind World War II Army Air Corps veteran told the VA she was very much alive and kicking and mad as blazes, when the VA computer pronounced her dead, but the official was soothing – Well don’t get excited, he said, intimating that she could be raised from the dead in 20 days; I know that seems like a long time, said Florian Saniewski, veterans assistance chief in Buffalo, there isn’t anything we can do any faster.
