
Playing Dead
A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
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Arden Hammersmith
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 21st century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood is 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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Listened to it twice!
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Loved it
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Too Exploratory
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Great Read
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What I didn't like about this book: The author is a little too naive. She finds the whole idea of faking your own death romantic and actually begins the book by contemplating faking her dead to get out of student debt, because she owes in the 6 figures. I am a former law student. I don't know anyone who doesn't have the kind of debt. You learn to live with it and get on with your life. Throughout the story she seems both surprised and disappointed that her original romantic ideas of death fraud were too childish and fantastic to be what she thought, like meeting her childhood hero and finding he couldn't fly in real life. The book is also more about her growing up finally (at 31 years old), and realizing regular life is good enough, than death fraud. There is way too much of the author in the narrative for my taste.
Naive and romantic view of death
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Leaves one unsatisfied
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The reader is supposed to stroke her hair and tell her it will all be ok and all the girls are just jealous of her. Maybe she was young during the writing? The people are made out to be bumbling cartoons and she presents herself as the insightful rich kid finding the meaning of life. Like she didn’t realize we’d all read fight club and moved passed it already.
The author is just fishing for compliments
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This was one of those books. It read (or rather the narrator read this) like investigative journalism - similar to a 60 minutes or 20/20 in style. Interesting tidbits about some who have gone off the grid only to keep googling themselves and get found out, or confess to staging their deaths after a guilty conscience did them in. It explores how someone could put together a fake death and what tools and tricks experts know. It also looks into insurance fraud and how fraud is investigated, plus explores the believers that various celebrity deaths were faked- Michael Jackson, Andy Kauffman, and Tupac to name a few. I enjoyed this one!
Very interesting investigative journalism!
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interesting
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Good read, drags a bit
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