David L. Bingham discovered the mix-up when he saw an advertisement that Crown Hill Memorial Park was under new ownership and asking plot owners to call to make sure everything was in order. When he called, cemetery employees told him he was dead and buried, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Bingham went to check and found out that there is a David L. Bingham buried in the plot next to his mother. The inscription reads: "David L. Bingham Sr. Beloved son and father. Gone fishin'."

"That's not me," Bingham said. "I'm not a fisherman."

The cemetery blamed a "paperwork mistake."

Bingham said the cemetery offered him four choices -- move his mother, move the other David L. Bingham, arrange for cremation when his time comes with burial of the ashes in his mother's plot or bury him elsewhere in the cemetery. He has rejected all four.

He said he has yet to hear back from the cemetery. In the meantime, the mix-up has increased his stress to the point where he has gone to the emergency room twice with anxiety attacks.