Fake Death Not So Easy in Real Life

We’ve all seen it plenty of times in the movies. I’ve even written about it myself here at The Hank Spot. When a character of great intelligence and unlimited means needs to disappear for nefarious reasons, he or she fakes his or her own death. Its seems easy and usually works. Sometimes even for the most righteous of reasons in the fictional realm, a fake death is not a tall order.

So what, then, when a person of less intelligence and more limited means attempts to dispel his or her own existence? Avoiding any metaphysical questions of existentialism and focusing only on observed results, it would appear that the common man is less successful at faking his own death than the fictional man. Or at least, the idiots who make the news didn’t fare so well.

Last week, a man was wanted for DUI-related charges of homicide and related crimes was arrested in New Mexico a month after he attempted to fake his own death. This scofflaw had attempted to elude authorities by publishing a fake obituary of himself and having his wife report his death to an attorney. Not to be outdone by the drama of Hollywood, this man was eventually found hiding under a pile of rocks in the desert. It kind of makes you wonder: if this is what your life is going to be, what’s so bad about jail?

If you want to read more about this particular story, click here for coverage at KRQE.com. Not enough? Find a similar recent story in the Republican-American.

If nothing else, I think we can agree that this man assumed the ultimate responsibility for his own acts of free will without any certain acknowledgement of what is right or wrong or good or bad.