The 'We explain' seems to boil down to "she's a mad fucking liar".

Did she collect the insurance money?

She got better.

Thanks, I really didn't want to open another tab ...

Uuuh huh.

r/unexpectedmontypython

And her family is a buncha mad f-ing liars.

I thought insurance didn't pay out for suicides? Maybe that's just a popular plot device and has little basis in reality that I just accepted as truth.... but I'm drunk on Reddit so I won't bother researching...

It does so long as you don't buy it intending to suicide, policies will often exclude suicide for 1-2 years as well.

Rumours of her death were greatly exaggerated.

There was fund-raising for her funeral, so she certainly received something

That sounds believable, thanks

Why would you do this? I get it that she needed to take a break and get help, OK, but then just, well, go away and get help. Hire someone to manage to accounts or ma age them yourself.

My God, all of these people are insane for thinking this was OK.

People bought her book to support her family.

For money, people bought her book out of sympathy.

I heard George Santos just hired her as a consultant.

20 thousand dollars apparently.

So did the daughter know she was still alive?

Finally got the attention she needed after so long.

Aren't mysterious disappearances and faked deaths a little cliché for writers? No? Don't fix what ain't broken? Got it.

Wouldn’t be surprised if someone sues over this, especially if she made money off of the fraud. Is faking one’s own death to make money, especially from donations to a supposed funeral, illegal?

No, she's been working for him for a while. Who do you think wrote his campaign bio.

She has the same accountant as Hotblack Desiato.

She's dead to me now

Did she not leave her house? Did her neighbors or acquaintances never see her.

Many states have statutes that actually prohibit denying life insurance benefits if it’s been a certain amount of time after the policy was purchased. Usually a year or two.

This article just makes the whole situation more confusing and opens up a thousand questions. I give it a D.

I don’t think she faked her death irl, just on fb.

Who?

So I read the excerpt for Love to Last a Lifetime on Amazon.com. Here's the first paragraph:

>From the moment I laid eyes on Greta, I knew she was meant to be loved by me for a lifetime. She'd been talking to my best friend's girlfriend and her smile drew me in like a moth to a flame. Who would have ever guessed our story would be one for the ages?

That is, without a doubt, the single worst opening paragraph I've read in a long time. There are so many issues with it, I don't know where to begin.

And donated to her funeral. I can’t wait for the fraud charges. I’ve lost people I really loved to suicide and this was painful for a lot of us.

Agatha Christie called and said “hold my drink”

Jesus did it better.

Remember Reach

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This is a niche joke, but I appreciated it.

Ooooo. That's a nice way to put it. I shall be telling my wife that the jokes she rolls her eyes at are "niche". Thank you!

It's always like the spanish inquisition

Somehow... Meachen has returned

Agatha Christie called and wants her stunt back

I rolled my eyes no less than 5 times reading that single paragraph. I think they would fall out if I tried the book.

May I introduce you to the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest? It is a contest to write the worst opening paragraph of what would be an awful novel. https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

It was named after the penner of this famously bad opening paragraph.

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

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I think she just did it online. She was in some kind of online fb group and her "daughter" posted saying she had passed. I don't think the other people/authors in the group knew her in person.

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