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Author Greenwood, Elizabeth, 1983- author.

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

Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Edythe Dyer Ad Non Fic  364.163 Greenwood E    WITHDRAWN  
 Freeport Nonfiction  364.16 Gre    AVAILABLE  
 MMA Stacks  HV6762.A3 G74 2016    AVAILABLE  
 Rice PL Nonfiction  364.16 Greenwood    AVAILABLE  
 South Portland Branch Adult NF  364.163 G856 c.2  AVAILABLE  
 South Portland Main Adult NF  364.163 GRE    AVAILABLE  
 Thomas ML Adult Nonfiction  364.163 GRE    AVAILABLE  
 Unity Environmental University Non Fiction Stacks  HV6762.A3 G74 2016    AVAILABLE  
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Description xix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction -- How to disappear -- How to be found -- The canoe man -- The believers -- Collateral damage -- Faking my death with Mr. Clean and Mr. Bean -- Epilogue.
Summary Explores whether it is still possible to fake your own death in the 21st century and describes the author's probe of the world of death fraud, visiting message boards for people plotting pseudocide and buying her own death certificate in the Philippines.
Subject Missing persons -- Case studies.
Fraud -- Case studies.
Absence and presumption of death.
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