User blog comment:Sossions/HOAX!/@comment-113335-20100311235251

It's a classic, though virtual, example of pseudocide. It means faking one's death.

See, Swiss Ninja felt that he was constantly disrespected and hated. He quit and came back under a new identity. Meanwhile, the old Swiss Ninja began receiving respect, and since he quit, people poured out their real opinions for him, and he came back, announcing that he faked his death. He saw what people really thought about him and came back.

In the real world, people do pseudocide to raise their property values, increase their assets, or commit insurance fraud. Artists' work also goes up when they die, and that could incline an artist to commit pseudocide to rake in the profits of post-mortem sales.

The above post required serious spell-checking action.

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