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Cover of Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood

Playing Dead

A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud

Elizabeth Greenwood

2016·246 pages·Nonfiction

Biography Crime

gritty memoir true crime

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.

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Playing Dead

A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud

Elizabeth Greenwood

Year

2016

Pages

246

Type

Nonfiction

Biography Crime Mystery Science & Mind

Tags

gritty memoir true crime

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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.

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