Real life farce

[tangofiction]

Last night, my sister got a phonecall from the bank: it seems that she was "selected out of 30,000 people" to participate in a free trial. They were offering her life insurance for a period of ... SIX DAYS. (What, after 6 days she would love her new life insurance so much that she won't want to part with it? )



My dad promptly parried: "Wonderful! We could pay off the mortgage!"



Which makes me think that this would be a fantastic set-up for a black comedy: how to collect someone's life insurance and make it look like an accident... in only six days.



My husband has a different (equally morbid) twist: a self-sacrificing individual tries to get himself killed in order to provide much-needed cash for his family. Since the insrance company won't pay if he commits suicide, he has to do thinks like crash meetings of the local gun lobby waving a "no guns" flag. Hm... The possibilities.



Tango

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I remember a movie (afair english) where a man got cancer and had to die in a month. He hired an assassin exactly to fool the insurance company, but then the assassin failed and then medics said it was a mistake and there's no danger to his life.



Nice a movie, after all. Too bad I've completely forgotten the title. Ж:)

[tangofiction]

Hm, I've never seen it. I'm sure the plot has been exploited before. ))



Tango