• @[email protected]
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    1591 year ago

    Unethical life pro tip: want to kill yourself but left something for your family? Buy a life insurance policy, call the suicide prevention hotline and wait for the cops to kill you. Isn’t technically suicide, so the life insurer can’t deny your family claim!!

      • @Spaceballstheusername
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        271 year ago

        In all seriousness does the insurance still pay it if it’s suicide by cop?

        • @slaacaa
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          261 year ago

          Probably not, most insurers love to have every possible exception in the contract (e.g. taking part in illegal activity), to get out of payment

        • @[email protected]
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          161 year ago

          It was suicide. Claim denied!

          But he had a heart attack.

          We have a receipt that shows he ate McDonald’s 3 years ago. This is clearly suicide by food.

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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      301 year ago

      Cops will still claim it was suicide-by-cop. Which is some top-tier copaganda, because it’s just another way of them saying “if you call us while in distress, there’s a good chance we’ll kill you then blame you for it.”

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      At least in Canada life insurance will still cover you committing suicide, but it has to occur 1-2 years after your plan starts.

      • @EvacuateSoul
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        91 year ago

        Same with my policy in the US. Already have it seasoned past the mark, so I joke with my wife that I can make her a millionaire.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Or pay off the corner to list your death as natural causes or something.

      Like my uncle did.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          Auto correct got me again. Coroner.

          For those that are genuinely confused, there’s two very important things you must know. The coroner is the job title for the guy who writes up what caused you to die. They do things like autopsies (when required), and they’re basically a doctor for dead people.

          The other thing is the English idiom of “paying [someone] off”, which is basically a common way to not so subtley say that you’re bribing them.

          So in plain language: there is an extremely good chance that my uncle bribed the coroner to ignore whatever he found on my uncle when he died and say he perished from natural causes. This normally implies something about self deletion and insurance, since insurance basically never pays out if you die by your own hands.

          Is anyone still confused? Please let me know if you are and I can address any part of this that might not be crystal clear.

          • lad
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            11 year ago

            It’s not quite about clearness, but if your uncle did that all by himself that means he must have trusted the coroner a lot. Which is a bit surprising with regard to bribing one, to my mind.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              He had connections. May he rest in peace.

              He had fallen in with some questionable types throughout his life, partly due to his work. I won’t get into many details here, I don’t want it to be traced back to his family or anything; but due to the circumstances he found himself in, bluntly, he was worth more dead, than alive. He would only be worth anything if he died “naturally” or something, since life insurance is kind of a stickler for that sort of thing.

              All I was told was that he had made arrangements for his body to be found, and around what was going to be done afterwards to ensure that insurance paid out so his family would be taken care of.

              The circumstances were kinda BS too, it wasn’t his fault, but he was liable and there was little he could do to change that. He knew what the outcomes were and to him, death was the better option. I’m not saying I agree with his choices. I had no real part in them, I was too young at the time to really grasp what was happening, and appropriately, I was not aware of, nor involved in any of it, and heard most of what I know through my older siblings and from my father (his brother). He apparently sent my dad a note the night before he was found dead basically summarizing what was about to happen, so it was very clearly planned. As far as I’m aware, everything went according to plan and though I don’t have much contact with that part of my family, I believe they’re doing just fine.

              Just a touch more detail on the circumstances, it was some legal issue he found himself kind of “holding the bag” for (so to speak) so his outcomes were: (extremely unlikely) he would be found innocent, and allowed to return to his “normal” life - obviously he didn’t think this was possible at all. (most likely) he would be found guilty and sentenced to many years in prison. Being a convict would ruin his chosen vocation as there’s a lot of trust required in what he does and a conviction would basically exclude him from working in his field. (alternatively) he dies, insurance pays out, his family gets a big wad of cash, and he would be just as useless as if he was found guilty; but now with a pretty significant amount of money given to his family.

              I don’t hold it against him. I don’t have any strong feelings on the matter. It’s just something that happened.

              • lad
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                21 year ago

                It’s sad that people find themselves in such situations, my condolences… well, to him and his family mostly

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          31 year ago

          probably to pay sb in advance to falsify the death certificate

    • @Got_Bent
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      51 year ago

      I kinda legit want to check the conditions of my current life insurance policies regarding suicide. Not because I want to off myself today, but because I do want to off myself if I get the stage four diagnosis or some such thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Or hold on for two years. At least in the US, the non-payout for suicide is only allowed the first two years of the policy.

    • @kameecoding
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      351 year ago

      I mean, without context it’s hard to tell, but suicide by cops is a thing, some people take advantage of the trigger happiness of cops and make them kill them.

      • Midnight Wolf
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        “make” them

        cop drops two mags into a non-threat

        HE MADE ME DO IT!

        reloads for a third mag

        gotta be sure

      • N-E-N
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        71 year ago

        This comment is elsewhere in this post with exclusively upvotes but you getting down voted for some reason lol

      • mommykink
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        361 year ago

        True but unfortunately his pants were 2% elastane so he will, in fact, still be going to hell

        • Midnight Wolf
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          31 year ago

          That’s why I never wear pants at all! See?

        • @Omgpwnies
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          11 year ago

          Kirkland signature stretchy jeans are the GOAT. If I’m going to hell, at least I’ll be wearing comfy pants

      • idunnololz
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        271 year ago

        Oh sht. The cops were the good guys all along. They’re angels sent by God to take us all to heaven 🙏🙏🙏

        /s (I’m going to vomit from having to type that)

  • @notannpc
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    701 year ago

    I mean…technically the suicide was prevented.

  • @thann
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    621 year ago

    He reportedly yelled “killsteal”

    • billwashere
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      91 year ago

      I’m going to hell for laughing so hard at this.

  • @CaptainProton
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    361 year ago

    Trained, qualified police doing quality police work keeping dangerous people with guns off the street, got it.

  • BOMBS
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    341 year ago

    That could have been the poor man’s plan all along. Suicide by cop. Local PD is just providing a free service. If only there was another way.

  • NutWrench
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    311 year ago

    Never call cops to solve a problem for you because then you have TWO problems.

    • @jpreston2005
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      111 year ago

      pro tip: Whatever problem you have, just throw a molotov cocktail at it.

      now you have a totally different problem!

      • @Emerald
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        51 year ago

        The good place! Amazing show

  • @buddascrayon
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    211 year ago

    I can’t find a single source or article about this. I think this a scare meme meant to frighten people away from using the new 988 suicide prevention hotline number.

    This is a very irresponsible post that can harm a lot of people.

  • @berkeleyblue
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    171 year ago

    Why the hell would you send a SWAT team to someone suicidal? O.o

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      Guess he called hotline saying he’s gonna take someone else’s life before his own?