Last-Ditch Option Only
Hi Whipper,
I am not suggesting that anyone deliberately spin into the overcast for fun.
Good planning should ensure that a VFR pilot never gets 'caught on top' to begin with. But if that ever happens, a spin is a stabilized, low-G, controlled manuever that will bring the aircraft down in one piece.
PROVIDED that there is adequate altitude for a recovery under the ceiling, a spin through the overcast is far safer than trying to let down on instruments (assuming that one is not trained and current on instrument flight, of course). As study after study has shown, the VFR pilot in IMC will invariably let the aircraft fall into a spiral dive and more than likely rip the wings and/or tail off ... not my idea of fun.
This is not a pleasant subject but I don't see that it is any less real a concern than inadvertantly spinning in.
MLS-12D