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title: "Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud"
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# Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud

**Brand:** elizabeth greenwood
**Price:** ₨388
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- **What is this?** Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by elizabeth greenwood
- **How much does it cost?** ₨388 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    Entertaining
  

*by T***G on Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2017*

This is an interesting book that centers on the unique and crafty art of making yourself dead so you can live. Sounds odd. However, some people, indeed, attempt to fake their own death.  The author explores these ideas in this book.I enjoyed the idea behind the book tremendously; as I have read many other books on how to disappear, hide in plain sight and do many other things to generally make yourself hard to find.  The author does a decent job of explaining how this process works without actually telling you the details of how disappear.I did have a good laugh at her experience in the Philippines attempting to get a hold of her own death certificate and the cast of curious people she managed to work with. There was something delightfully daft about that odd sequence of the book.She interviews Frank Ahern, a master skip tracer, a couple of hard-boiled cops and some serious insurance fraud investigators about how things are doing.  Inevitably, she finds out the most common problem with attempting to disappear is we fall back on the things we enjoy or leave some kind of trail for us to follow.  If you are going to do this: you have to do it completely.Over I enjoyed the book and her crafty writing style. However, if you interested in a more substantial trip through this interesting area of reading then I would suggest reading the masterwork of J.J. Luna called How to be invisible and Frank Ahern’s book how to disappear. I would also strong recommend The International Fugitive: Secrets of Clandestine Travel Overseas by Ken Abaygo. These books have a far more realistic down to earth perspective of what it takes, in detail, to vanish.

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    Shallow read from a shallow author
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2019*

I honestly couldn't get through 1/4th of this book without rolling my eyes on every page. This author is self-entitled and talks about how hard her life is and how it would be easier to "die" than to pay off her student loans (of which she took out a ludicrous amount to go to school across the country and live in an apartment in San Francisco of all places). I can't think of any worse reason to try to fake your death, the epitome of a first world problem.She focuses on what she was wearing during interviews and how her dialogue with the person she's interviewing is affected by their opinion of her. A boring perspective on a really interesting topic, and it totally killed it for me. If you can get past her rich girl attitude you might enjoy the topic at least.

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    interesting book on an unexpected topic
  

*by K***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2017*

I heard about this book after listening to the author on a podcast (a WNYC radio show); the idea of this book sounded fascinating. It's a wonderful read: informative and entertaining, and Ms Greenwood is a wonderful writer. It goes into depth about what one has to do to disappear, all the while pointing out that it's very hard to get away with this. Later chapters look at a few people who have tried to die, only to get caught, and it was interesting to read about their reasons and the psychology behind something like leaving your life behind. One chapter about people who think Michael Jackson is still alive could have been cut; it focused on one woman who cleanly has issues with reality, and it didn't seem germane to the topic. But overall, this is a fine book on a topic I wouldn't have otherwise been curious about.Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll take my leave...

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