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I'm still pissed "Squaw Peak" in Phoenix, AZ was renamed for some Native American woman, even though she was still alive/ had not yet been dead for the amount o

• IceMetalPunk 4y ago
  Who decided you have to be dead to have something named after you, and what basis did they have for deciding that?
  • nullhack 4y ago
    "The Governor's lobbying, while ultimately successful, proved to be controversial. The controversy stemmed in part from the fact that governor's request violated a required waiting period of five years after a person's death prior to renaming a geographic feature; Piestewa had been killed earlier that year while deployed on active military duty in Iraq." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piestewa_Peak#Name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piestewa_Peak#Name Googling "five years after death geographic feature" gives me a United States Geological Survey Source https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/how-do-i https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/how-do-i If a monument could be named a day or a month after someone's death, that may create a Perverse Incentive for "early deaths" for brownie points...