This 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 lega

This 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.