Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud /
Greenwood, Elizabeth, 1983-
Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud / Elizabeth Greenwood. - First Simon & Schuster edition. - xix, 246 pages ; 23 cm
How to disappear -- How to be found -- The canoe man -- The believers -- Collateral damage -- Faking my death with Mr. Clean and Mr. Bean.
"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."--
9781476739335 1476739331 9781476739342 147673934X
2015038731
Missing persons--Case studies.
Fraud--Case studies.
Absence and presumption of death.
Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud / Elizabeth Greenwood. - First Simon & Schuster edition. - xix, 246 pages ; 23 cm
How to disappear -- How to be found -- The canoe man -- The believers -- Collateral damage -- Faking my death with Mr. Clean and Mr. Bean.
"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."--
9781476739335 1476739331 9781476739342 147673934X
2015038731
Missing persons--Case studies.
Fraud--Case studies.
Absence and presumption of death.