Man Who SF Medical Examiner Wrongly Declared Dead In 2021 Is Now, In Fact, Dead

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/17/man-who-sf-medical-examiner-wrongly-declared-dead-in-2021-is-now-in-fact-dead/Four years after a stunning mishap where the SF Medical Examiner notified a family that their father had been declared dead, and then he turned up alive, the same man has, in fact, now died. It was exactly one year ago today when the Chronicle broke the story that a man who the SF Medical Examiner’s Office had declared dead, and even sent his family the ashes, was actually still very much alive on the streets of San Francisco. The family of James Robinson was told he had overdosed in his room at the Tenderloin SRO Dahlia Hotel, and both fentanyl and meth were found next to the body. His daughter Kylie Robinson even walked down the aisle with som