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Author Greenwood, Elizabeth, 1983- author

Title Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud / Elizabeth Greenwood

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 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  364.163 .G8567p    AVAILABLE  
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Phys Descr xix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents How to disappear -- How to be found -- The canoe man -- The believers -- Collateral damage -- Faking my death with Mr. Clean and Mr. Bean
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
Subject Missing persons -- Case studies
Fraud -- Case studies
Absence and presumption of death
OCLC # 927166036
ISBN # 9781476739335
1476739331
9781476739342
147673934X