Warning: Be very careful before enabling Facebook’s “Delete After Death” setting on your account
Be very careful before enabling Facebook’s "Delete After Death" option.
I enabled this setting on my account. Later, even though I am still alive, someone apparently reported me as deceased, and Facebook processed my account according to my "Delete After Death" preference.
The biggest problem is that once your account gets into this situation, almost all of Meta’s normal contact forms and support channels seem unable to restore it.
I tried using:
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/292558237463098
but for almost 3 months, it has only shown:
"We could not process your request. Please try again later."
I also tried:
https://www.facebook.com/help/memorialized
to explain that I am alive and my account was incorrectly reported as belonging to a deceased person, but I still have not been able to recover it.
I can verify my identity and prove that I am alive, but there seems to be no proper appeal process for this situation.
So please be extremely careful with the "Delete After Death" setting. If someone falsely reports your death, recovering your account may become extremely difficult—or possibly impossible through normal Meta support channels.
I’m posting this as a warning so other people don’t end up in the same situation.