Top 10 Funniest Celebrity Responses to Fake Death Reports

By David Emery, About.com Guide

Actor Morgan Freeman has been a constant target of death hoaxes ever since late 2010, when a bogus retweet of a nonexistent CNN story claimed he had passed away in his Burbank home. The rumor-mongering reached a fever pitch in September 2012 after pranksters launched a Facebook page titled "RIP Morgan Freeman." Freeman fought back by posting the following words alongside a photo of himself on his Facebook page:

"Like Mark Twain, I keep reading that I have died. I hope those stories are not true... But if they are, I'm happy to report that my afterlife seems identical to my life when I was alive. I did go to Las Vegas to begin work on the film 'Last Vegas.' That is anything but a death sentence. -Morgan"