An image of co-workers surrounding their sleeping colleague, who is slumped in his chair with his eyes closed and mouth open, is being falsely claimed online to show a deceased man. The image, here, is being shared with a caption that suggests the sleeping man suffered a cardiac arrest and died, and his unwitting colleagues had gathered for a prank photo. And it just went downhill from there.”Paraschivescu also told Reuters via Facebook Messenger in January 2022 that he is the man in the picture and is very much alive. Gsoft posted the same photo on Facebook in February 2016 (here), joking in French in the caption: “And yes, it happened at GSOFT. The man was sleeping, not dead.

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Persons: he’d, Eduard Paraschivescu, ” Paraschivescu, ”, Gsoft, Read Organizations: Gsoft, Huffington, Reuters, Facebook Locations: Montreal, Canada, GSOFT