Phrasing question - summary

[Charles Fisher <charles -at- DATATEL -dot- COM>]

Thanks for all who replied to my question earlier this week
about how to phrase the title for the "undecease" procedure.

After considering all of the suggestions, I've decided to stick
with (something close to) "Correcting an accidentally recorded
death." I may change "accidentally" to "mistakenly" to avoid
confusion with "accidental death." I'm also considering synonyms
for the verb "record" to avoid confusion with the noun "record."

Issues surrounding "accident" and "record" were mentioned by
folks responding to the post - Thanks.

Other suggestions included
  Birth
  Reversing the deceased status of a record
  Reversing an incorrect death entry
  Unrecording...
  Adding/Removing deceased status to/from a record
  Marking a record as deceased/living
  Setting the living/deceased parameter (good suggestion Sue, but
   sadly it is not quite a boolean function - that may sound weird,
   but I don't want to get into the workings of the system on this list.)
  Undoing a recorded death
  Changing, correcting, or resetting....
  The Phoenix Procedure (good one; some other folks here call it
   "the Lazarus Procedure.")
  Reborn
  Reversing a death record
  Changing the date of death
  Reinstating (this one was suggested a lot. I like the term, but in our
   system, and for our audiences, "reinstate" has a special meaning.)

Some folks had questions or suggestions about how the procedures were
grouped or organized. This particular procedure was originally under
a group of procedures titled "Utilities," but I'm moving it to a
part of the book titled "Personal Information," where it is grouped
with procedures for adding a person, updating personal information,
recording academic history, and recording a death.

Thanks again for your help.

--
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except that most writers don't reach it soon enough."
  - William Zinsser
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 Charles Fisher
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