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Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781476739335 Author(s): Elizabeth Greenwood Format: Hardcover Year: 2016 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Dimensions: 140 x 24 x 213 (w x l x h) Pages: 272

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Description: Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find out. So she sets off on a foray into the world of death fraud, where for $30,000 a consultant can make you disappear but your suspicious insurance company might hire a private detective to dig up your coffin only to find it filled with rocks. Greenwood tracks down a man who staged a kayaking accident and then returned to live in his own house while all his neighbors thought he was dead. She takes a call from Michael Jackson (yes, he s alive or so some would have her believe), talks to people contemplating pseudocide, and gathers intel on black market morgues in the Philippines, where she may or may not succeed in obtaining some fraudulent goodies of her own. Along the way, she learns that love is a much less common motive than money, and that making your death look like a drowning virtually guarantees you ll be caught. (Disappearing while hiking, however, is a great way to go.) Playing Dead is an utterly fascinating and charmingly bizarre investigation into our all-too-human desire to escape from the lives we lead, and the men and women desperate enough to lose their identities and their families to begin again.'

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