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> contemplated insurance fraud plus suicide in one swell foop It's technically only insurance fraud if you commit suicide and manage to make it look like an ac
by electromagnetic 16y ago
> contemplated insurance fraud plus suicide in one swell foop
It's technically only insurance fraud if you commit suicide and manage to make it look like an accident (IE drive into a lake or river known for accidents and just don't try to escape) rather than actually getting killed (IE starting a fight with the nearest drug dealing gang banger after signing a DNR order).
- gwern 16y agoI actually looked this up once as part of pondering a hare-brained fundraising scheme involving quantum suicide. Apparently, most insurance companies have a clause where suicide voids the insurance if done within a few years of starting the insurance, but they will simply pay out without a fuss after that point. I suppose they reason that there aren't many people who can calculatedly wait several years to off themselves to benefit someone else. I've never heard of anyone actually doing it and insurance corporations are still in business (and quite profitable, judging from Warren Buffet's holdings), so they seem to have been right. (And really, is it 'fraud' if you have to die for it? If someone scams me financially and has to die in the process, I'm not sure how angry I could be with them.)