Very much alive and well, author Elizabeth Greenwood faked her own death.
ELIZABETH Greenwood was having dinner at a cheap Vietnamese restaurant, feeling sorry for herself over $100,000 in student-loan debt and the bad life decisions it fostered.
She pondered the potential consequences: A Dickensian debtors prison or a life on the lam.
Or, her dinner companion interjected, You could fake your own death.
That night, an energised Greenwood Googled fake your own death, and her despairing thought experiment turned into a years-long quest to see if it could actually be done and planted the seeds for her new book, Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud(Simon & Schuster).
As she dug deeper, It became very clear to me that I had st…
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