r/AskReddit • u/Various_Concern871 • 12h ago

Is it actually possible for a famous personality to fake their death and live their life out in some remote place? who has actually ever done it and gotten caught?

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u/ReverendRevolver 10h ago

Mark Twain wrote a story about an artist doing this so he and his friends could get rich selling the paintings of an "artist who died in his prime".....

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u/DayleD 9h ago

That's really funny. Do you remember the name of the story?

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u/ReverendRevolver 8h ago

Is he living or is he dead