A Story for the contest (the names have been changed to protect the guilty)

[Kirktree]

THIS IS A TRUE STORY! 100% guaranteed.
(the names have been changed to protect the guilty)

By Kirktree

Uncle Jerome was havin trouble keepin everyone fed, so bein the resourceful fellow he was, he decided to go huntin. 
Weren’t no huntin season, mind you, but he felt that bein hungry surpassed any law some city folks had concocted. Those city folks never did understand much about life anyways, always thinkin meat come from a meat market. Didn’t they ever get suspicious of them little bitty steaks all wrapped up nice in white paper?
So Uncle Jerome got his old Besty off the wall and went huntin for some nice juicy venison. That would keep every one fed for a while, and soon it would be huntin season and he could go get him some nice elk. But venison would do for now.
Too bad he got stuck in that barb wire fence though. Really messed up his hunting plans. Then the rifle went off and killed him right then and there, stuck in that ole barb wire fence.
Aunt Josephine was really countin on that life insurance to help pay the bills and keep all those youngins fed.
But when it was all said and done she didn’t get a wooden nickel.
See’s them city folk who run the life insurance company say that you get no money if it is a suicide.
And it had to be a suicide.
Cuz he would not be out huntin this time of year.
That would be poachin.
Yup, must have been a suicide.

[JesseL]

The husband of a friend of my mother did almost the exact opposite. The guy was a born loser, ran his family into debt and had all sorts of troubles with addiction. One day he decided to do his wife a favor (not technically his wife by that point, they had divorced to avoid his financial troubles affecting her but they still lived together as a married couple), so he went out to his shop and proceeded to try to do himself in in such a way that it would look like an accident and his (technically ex) wife would get his life insurance. He managed to chew himself up pretty good with a table saw, not dead but in a whole lot of pain. He decided he couldn't handle the pain and finished the job in the driveway with his hunting rifle.

So when the Sheriff's office comes out to investigate what happened, they piece together the whole ordeal and say "Yep, looks like an accidental death". The insurance company paid up and never questioned a thing.