Feigned death

A feigned death, also called pseudocide, is a case in which an individual leaves evidence that suggests that he is dead to deceive others. This can be done for a variety of reasons, such as fraudulently collecting insurance money or avoid being seized by law enforcement authorities for any other crime.

People who fake their own death often do so by simulating drownings, because it provides a plausible reason for the absence of a body. According to a theory, sometimes credited to an anonymous study, up to a quarter of the suicides that take place from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where no body has been found, may have been feigned.

There are a lot of books dealing with how to fake one's own death, including How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. Famous feigned deaths

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