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A faked death, also called a staged death, is the act of an individual purposely deceiving other people into believing that the individual is dead, when the person is, in fact, still alive. The faking of one's own death by suicide is sometimes referred to as pseuicide or pseudocide . [1]
By Lauren Cahn. Updated: Jan. 25, 2023. People often fake their own deaths to get out of trouble, whether they're escaping a threat, debt, or a prison sentence. Check out these notable cases. 1...
People fake their deaths for many reasons. Most often it is done to escape legal or financial troubles, an extreme measure designed to get a fresh start and make a clean break. Other times...
Faking your own death is a timeworn tradition. Whether it's to collect on a life-insurance policy, escape a criminal conviction, or to simply disappear, people have been playing dead for...
Faking your own death, or pseudocide, is the subject of her new book, Playing Dead: A Journey Through The World of Death Fraud. Greenwood started thinking, hypothetically, about pseudocide...
Why would anyone fake their own death? Some seek a departure from royalty, a career as a pirate, or a quiet life after taking down the Third Reich.
Abe Vigoda, seen here on Barney Miller in 1977, was mistakenly reported as dead many times before his actual death in 2016. A death hoax is a deliberate report of someone's death that is later revealed to be untrue. In some cases, it might be because the person has intentionally faked death.
