21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Worst Boyfriend Ever Pretends To Die In Order To Show Girlfriend What Life Would Be Like Without Him. “Alexey Bykov wanted to prove to his girlfriend how important he was to her. How romantic, right? So he contracted a stuntman, makeup artist, screenwriter and director to stage a fake car crash just so his girlfriend could watch him die. Only, of course, Bykov, 30, from Onsk, Russia, wasn’t actually dead. He had staged the whole thing so that he could propose. Yes, this makes no sense.”