If someone stands to gain big time from your death, you had better make sure that you can seriously trust this person, such as your own children, but definitely not your own wife.

With the Roman empire one of the first civilizations to collect inheritance taxes, and tax collectors being notoriously corrupt, many richer, middle-class Romans ended up not dying but being died.

One of the problems they had, was this was not particularly good for the Roman economy. There is a maximum number of middle class people that you can die instead of just naturally let die.

I wonder how we could model this optimal number? I think it is just a linear programming problem. Has anybody ever thought of how to design such program?

With the secret services and the banks knowing exactly what your financial net worth is, they should be interested in buying this program, no?