Do you think it would be possible for a high profile celebrity in today's world to fake his own death?

For example, as soon as it was reported that Michael Jackson had passed, rumors started to pop up that he faked his own death, and there seem to be a rather large number of believers, which is exactly what anyone who saw what happened when Elvis died would have expected. Many still think Jim Morrison is alive. Some think John Lennon is still alive and others think Kurt Cobain is still alive. And what do they all have in common? Fame on an unimaginable scale…the type that in some ways has become for them more of a curse than a blessing. If you have enough people who just don’t want to believe you’re gone, and you have achieved a level of fame where living a normal life would be impossible, the conspiracy theories are bound to pop up.

So, I’m curious. I could imagine in 1977, we lived in a world where the famous were treated like a different class of human…someone like Elvis probably could have bribed the right officials and made himself just disappear. But today, everyone’s got a digital camera on them, if only in their cell phones. News spreads like wildfire on the internet. Celebrities are treated like they have no private lives or right thereto. Could someone THAT famous get enough people in on it to fake his own death? Consider all the people involved, which is why I mentioned Jackson…just think of who would have to be in on it, and how one could get these people to move into place without leaving a paper trail or an opportunity for a revealing photo opp that would blow the cover right off the scheme.

So, I’m NOT asking if you think Jackson faked his death…I don’t believe he did, nor do I think any dead celebrity ever has. But I do think that up until maybe 10 years ago it might have been possible, and I just don’t think it could happen today. What do you think?