Have you ever wondered what it would be like to attend your own funeral? On Friday, Facebook gave me that option by telling me that I was dead. Things got weirder when it also told me that most other people I knew were dead, too.

Is it still your own funeral if everyone else is dead?

“We hope people who love Katie will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate her life,” Facebook told me in a very nice way on Friday afternoon. The social network even posted the message next to an illustrated flower.

At first, I was indignant. I was definitely not dead. (Was I? It had been a long week.)

Then I thought I had been hacked. Then I asked a few of my colleagues. Also dead.