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All the other entities are doing work - of course they need to be paid. You are dead, you're doing nothing. Why would you be paid?
by Blahah 6y ago
All the other entities are doing work - of course they need to be paid. You are dead, you're doing nothing. Why would you be paid?
- renewiltord 6y agoAh, for the same reason that you pay someone's estate for their land rather than just take it for the good of everyone. We do not consider one's remains the property of one's estate, strictly. We only recognize one's right to interment or alternative disposal to be executed by one's kin etc. I believe this is wrong. I have spent quite a few decades growing me and ownership of this body must rest more strongly with my estate than any other possession I have. In keeping with that, I intend to retain the right to disposal of this possession as I see fit. EDIT-response: user munk-a: I think I am content to have my body treated just as other property that I have owned in my life. If inheritance laws prohibit inheriting property but permit putting it in a never-dying trust, then I will prefer that my body be treated as such. If all property is transferred to the state upon death, then so be it for my body. I am not anti-social. I merely have this one (apparently peculiar) view on ownership of one's body.
- munk-a 6y agoActually, personally, I despise all inheritance related laws - I understand the historical origin of them and they did make quite a bit of sense but in this modern world I think the only thing that inheritance does is degrade any attempts we might make at moving more toward a meritocracy. Then again I was strongly influenced by Longhouse traditions growing up and also feel rather neutral on private property ownership in general.