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6 People Who Faked Their Own Death (For Ridiculous Reasons)

By Jeff Kelly, Matthew Hayden Nov 06, 2009 579,023 views
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We can admit that sometimes it might make sense to fake your death. You know, like if you're on the run from the mob, or maybe if it's in order to more effectively strike fear into the criminal underworld while working as a costumed vigilante.

Or you could go a totally different route and fake your death for a really asinine reason. Kind of like these people...

#6.
Amir Vehabovic Wants to Find His True Friends

The Dearly Departed

Friends, we have gathered here to celebrate and remember Amir Vehabovic, who left us far too soon at the tender age of 45. Amir, a native of Bosnia, turned up dead of mysterious causes in March of 2007 , but damned if there wasn't a bona fide certificate of death and a real coffin delivered by the undertaker to be placed six-feet-under. We'd like to tell you hundreds turned out to bid a fond farewell to their passed friend. Well, maybe dozens. Or at least a couple. Come on, at least a couple people showed up to pay their respect, right?

The Cause of "Death"

Nope. Not even a couple. Only one person turned up for Amir's funeral, and that was his mother. This would only be kind of crushingly depressing, if Amir hadn't actually staged his death just to see how popular he was.

Now, we've all thought about what it would be like to watch our own funeral. You're curious, you want to find out who shows up, who doesn't, who cries and what members of the opposite sex would blurt out how they've always wanted to have filthy sex with you. Deciding the stew of sympathy was too much to resist, Amir hatched an elaborate plan to fake his own death, then forged a death certificate and bribed an undertaker to deliver the coffin. For his trouble, he learned first hand why most of us only think about our funerals.


Considerably more people mourned the passing of the Frasier dog.

See, there's no good outcome. If lots of people show up, they'll hate you when they discover the lie and, as Amir learned, if no one shows up, they already hate you. After no one showed up to his funeral, Amir learned a valuable lesson about life and, in an effort to change his ways... oh wait, no, he sent strongly worded letters to the 45 "friends" who didn't attend, which, really Amir, is an impossible stance to take. If they didn't care enough to attend your funeral when they thought you were actually dead, finding out that you're both alive and the creepiest guy they know probably isn't going to do the trick.

But look on the bright side, you are the only person who's not a figment of Mark Twain's imagination who gets a do-over on their funeral. And next time, we'd imagine it will be significantly less awkward for you.

#5.
Dianne Craven Is REALLY Bad at Breaking Up

The Dearly Departed

Earlier this year, tragic news struck Stuart Shortland: His lover of nearly five years, Dianne Craven, had suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage and passed away. Dianne and Stuart had been having their illicit affair for years, but not long before her death, Dianne had informed Stuart that she'd had his child, a baby girl named Ruby. But when Stuart traveled to see his lover and daughter, both had disappeared, and it was then that he was given the news that Dianne had died, as well as information about the funeral. Oh, and he found all of this out via text message, which studies show is the douchiest way to inform someone of terrible news.


NO!

The Cause of "Death"

Dianne is apparently really, really bad at breakups. Let's be honest here, there are two things you should never, ever relay to someone via text message. The first is, "I'm breaking up with you." The second? "Hey, UR loved 1 died, TTYL." Particularly when the second one is in no way, shape or form true. Dianne Craven managed to do both at once with Stuart Shortland.

Yes, the whole thing was simply a plan to break things off with Stuart without having to go through the pain or normalcy of actually telling the person that it's just not working out. Basically, Dianne took the old "it's not you, it's me" and ratcheted it up about 50 notches by replacing "me" with "brain hemorrhage." To make matters worse, Stuart's distress and heartbreak caused him to develop alopecia (think Stan Sitwell from Arrested Development) and go bald, so we can only imagine his reaction when photos of Dianne and her husband living happily in Bali surfaced online three months later. She's still alive to this day and still hasn't answered for her actions. Though, to be fair, she'd probably just fake a heart attack the day before the interview. The lesson we can really take away from this, though, is that when you fake your own death, it's probably a good idea to get rid of your Facebook page.

#4.
Corey Taylor Seriously Hates Paying His Wireless Bill

The Dearly Departed

Corey Taylor, a consultant from Chicago, died quite unexpectedly in 2007 from mysterious causes. Whatever the causes, a death certificate was fashioned and faxed to all of the appropriate places to get things in order after his passing, including to his cell phone company, Verizon. Of course, since apparently every Verizon customer has an army of people led by a bespectacled nerd (code name: The Network) following him or her around every second of the day, it didn't take long for the cell phone giant to discover that Corey wasn't exactly dead, and that he still owed them money.

The Cause of "Death"

If you take a look way down your cell phone contract in the fine print, it states that if you ever even think of leaving your carrier they get the house, the kids, your soul and a sizable termination fee. Unless, of course, you're dead.

Deciding a hero needed to stand up for the little guy who just wanted to text at a reasonable price, he decided to fake his own death to avoid paying the $175 he owed Verizon in accordance with a contract that he personally signed. He had been so fed up with crappy service and dropped calls that he decided to go to extremes in order to, in his own words, "send a message"; and in our words, "get out of paying $175 because he's a cheap-ass." And when Corey stood up and asked Verizon and its brethren, "Can you hear me now?" they responded in unison by flipping him the bird and taking his money.

Where is Michael Jackson on this list????

11/17/2009 09:49:20 PM
verinon

I'm kind of on Diane Craven's side here - moving to Bali and all that. The guy was nuts enough to go get alopecia, after all. Still, it's delightful that "craven" means "cowardly".

11/10/2009 10:25:20 AM
CanberraPaul

Holy s**t. Dianne Craven totally trumps me for the crown of Ice Queen. That guy got freezer burned.

11/10/2009 05:54:59 AM
likalaruku

I live in alabama. I remember seeing this guy in a local publication called 'Mugshots' which I'm sure you can imagine what it contains. We all got a good laugh out of it. If you think about it though, if you're going to fake your death do you really want to go some where inhabited by people with an average IQ over 90? Certainly not, you want to be around people who don't have anything better to do than look at pictures of their friends after an arrest and cook meth. In all fairness though, Florida is a lot worse than Alabama. They may have Miami, Jacksonville and Orlando but they aren't even smart enough to navigate it. There is a reason there is a 'Florida' tag on Fark.

11/09/2009 10:41:21 AM
Ethereality

Create your Citizen and you will have the opportunity to develop your military, economy or political career. http://www.erepublik.com/en/referrer/Sirbeg

11/09/2009 05:59:14 AM
Sirbeg

How could Bennie Wint have been that stupid?

11/07/2009 09:27:56 PM
MyAwesomeFace

My friends recommended me a very interesting place __AgelessFriends.com__ It's a nice and free place for Younger Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to interact with each other. Age gap is not a problem there. You may wanna check it out and tell your friends.

11/07/2009 08:15:27 PM
kaly76hummer

My friends recommended me a very interesting place __AgelessFriends.com__ It's a nice and free place for Younger Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to interact with each other. Age gap is not a problem there. You may wanna check it out and tell your friends.

11/07/2009 08:01:42 PM
kaly76hummer

My friends recommended me a very interesting place __AgelessFriends.com__ It's a nice and free place for Younger Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to interact with each other. Age gap is not a problem there. You may wanna check it out and tell your friends.

11/07/2009 07:05:33 PM
kaly76hummer

Seriously Socran? You're going to nit-pick about grammar on Cracked?

11/07/2009 11:23:41 AM
MagicalPJ

You forgot Elvis. Sorry if I'm not the first to point that out.

11/07/2009 11:15:56 AM
Pedgerow

What happened in that last paragraph there? You go from a funny, moderately wit-laden article that easily meets Cracked's standard of quality, into a stumbling mess of repeating the same joke 2.5 times, a quasi-run-on sentence, very awkward grammar issues ("I mean, seriously" should never be used when you're referring to yourself as "we"), the phrase "ridiculously out of whack", and an incredibly poorly-delivered "Location X is Hell" joke. I'm not trying to bash you or anything, I'm honestly curious about how an entire article's worth of flubs can all congregate in a single paragraph like that. Did that "dumbass" picture have something to do with it?

11/07/2009 09:47:18 AM
Socran

"abominable jesus", that's great work, whoever came up w/ that term deserves a medal

11/07/2009 08:44:53 AM
hickslives

Wait, the Frasier dog died?! ...*sniff*

11/07/2009 06:56:53 AM
Sabre_Justice

This is wrong, Jesus Christ should be at #1...

11/07/2009 04:18:30 AM
dontbedifficult

That brain hemorrhages Facebook group is real but we need more members http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=170960329478&ref=search&sid=764313694.731755016..1&v=wall

11/07/2009 01:42:09 AM
Chewybaco

which are the nation's leading source of retarded rumors. f**k you, at least this one is plausible, whereas bigfoot is f**king retarded

11/07/2009 01:14:07 AM
InSovietRussia

WEAK...but not quite as weak as my one man fanbase lol...he should be around shortly to prove how important I am to his very existence

11/06/2009 11:47:06 PM
johnvince

I must to go store for butter and cheese.

11/06/2009 09:31:56 PM
kokoroneko

Alan Abel is awesome, and hells annoying at the same time. twinkle twinkle.

11/06/2009 09:30:38 PM
kokoroneko
Cracked stuff on
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