Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud Audiobook (Free)

“A delightful browse for anyone tantalized by the chance of disappearing with out a trace.” -Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake

“Delivers all of the lo-fi spy shenanigans and caught-red-handed schadenfreude you’re longing for.” -NPR

“A lively romp.” -The Boston World

“Grim fun.” -The NY Times

“Brilliant topic, absorbing book.” -The Seattle Occasions

“The most actually escapist summer read you could expect.” -The Paris Review

Is it still possible to fake about Taking part in Deceased: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud your personal loss of life in the twenty-first hundred years? With six numbers of student loan debts, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find out. So away she sets on a darkly comic foray in to the globe of death scams, where for $30,000 a specialist can make you disappear-but your dubious insurance company might hire a private detective to find out your coffin…only to find it filled up with rocks.

Greenwood tracks straight down a British guy who all staged a kayaking accident and returned to reside in his own home even though all his neighbours thought he was dead. She takes a call from Michael Jackson (no, he’s not really dead-or therefore her fresh acquaintances would have her believe), stalks message boards for people contemplating pseudocide, and gathers intel on dark marketplace morgues in the Philippines, where she may or may not get some deceptive goodies of her very own. On the way, she learns that love is usually a significantly less common purpose than money, which making your death look like a drowning practically guarantees that you’ll become captured. (Disappearing while walking, however, is a means great to go.)

Playing Dead is definitely a charmingly bizarre investigation in the vein of Jon Ronson and Mary Roach into our all-too-human desire to flee from the lives we lead, as well as the women and men desperate enough to give up their lives-and their families-to start again.