Has anyone ever contemplated faking their own death?
Have you ever considered faking your own death in order to start a new life under an assumed identity? If you haven’t, perhaps you personally know of someone who has.
I recently finished a book about a man who fakes his death. I never considered that people would do anything more than think about it. However, after doing a bit of research, apparently some people have actually gone to this extreme for the sake of a do-over life.
It seems that most real-life stories involve some sort of criminality. But it occurred to me that we probably only know the examples that involve criminal behavior because they are the ones who get caught. Those people who fake their deaths for non-criminal reasons don’t get caught because very few, if any, are looking for them or suspect their motives.
This calls for real honesty and serious answers. I don’t want to hear about on-line/facebook/twitter ‘deaths’, please. I’d ask that you refrain from sarcastic comments about Elvis and Michael Jackson, too.
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I knew a woman once who did that because of an abusive relationship. Once I learned the secret, I wish I hadn’t. If I knew, someone else could find out, but she she needed help to start over, and hopefully all involved are as trustworthy as they maintain themselves to be.
It’s a work in progress…. another 5 more years until I’m ready Then I’ll never be seen or heard from again…
That would be a negative.
I have! Actually, not faking my own death so much as just disappearing. I thought of all that I would do, getting rid of everything, phone, computer, bank account, cards, anything that would lead to me. It would be incredibly hard to do, to get rid of a prior life, and it would take a long time to plan, but I think it can be done.
Yes, I thought about it, believe it or not, as a way to further my career. I was a working musician at the time, and playing in punk/new wave bands. It occurred to me that the way to achieve lasting fame in the field was to spend a couple of years living a public lifestyle designed to keep me in the tabloids, during which time in my private life (aka: “the real world”) I would lay down a respectable body of work in the studio, after which I would publicly self destruct in some bizarre manner that would be just mysterious enough to keep everyone’s lips wagging, thus propelling me from second string tabloid fodder playing in one of those “I think I may have heard of them” bands directly to legend status.
Alas, the hitch in the plan was getting enough fame to become second string tabloid fodder to begin with.
Now, I write software… (sigh!)
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