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Once you are dead it is no longer your body. The dead have no rights. None whatsoever.
by evgen 7y ago
Once you are dead it is no longer your body. The dead have no rights. None whatsoever.
- conanbatt 7y agoMight be a technicality thing, but with that logic as soon as you are dead all your estate is up for grabs by anyone. If your body is your posession like your house or your car, then you have the right to do what you want with it.
- evgen 7y agoIt is up for grabs. Die as the victim of a violent crime and guess how much power your estate has to prevent an autopsy. Die of a virulent communicable disease and guess how much power your estate has to prevent your body from being cremated and the pathogens within rendered as inert as possible. Your body is your possession like your house or your car, and I am sure you can image how often a clear legal directive like a will is placed before a state body like a court and judgement passed.
- balt_s 7y agoThis is a faith statement not based in objective fact. Materialism has this to say about the dead; other religions express their beliefs differently.
- mikeash 7y agoObjective fact has provided a ton of evidence for materialism and very little for any alternative.
- evgen 7y agoThis is not a statement of faith, it is a statement of law. Once you are dead you have no rights and any possessions, claims, and liabilities pass to that legal fiction we call your estate. Perhaps there is some non-Western culture that handles things differently, but other than the estate being more of a familial construct rather than a legal one in some instances I am not aware of any deviations from this of any significance and look forward to being shown a counter-example.