Playing dead
Subtitle: a journey through the world of death fraud
By: Elizabeth Greenwood
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781476739335
Subjects: Missing persons; Fraud; Absence and presumption of death; Case studies
Description: "A darkly comic inquiry into how to fake your own death, the disappearance industry, and the lengths to which people will go to be reborn. 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."--
Table of contents: title: How to disappear; title: How to be found; title: The canoe man; title: The believers; title: Collateral damage; title: Faking my death with Mr. Clean and Mr. Bean.