How the AIDS crisis helped create a multibillion-dollar death-speculation market

Investors will buy your life insurance policy today — and collect the payout when you die.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1264x1244+0+0/resize/1264x1244!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ffa%2Fc9%2F3aeb62c84cae887a9d153b9eab93%2Fd585c7f1-a3b0-4f29-877a-7f0af94c3c00.jpeg' alt='Scott Page, pictured in the 1990s.'/><p>Investors will buy your life insurance policy today — and collect the payout when you die.</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=g-s1-139946' />