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Who decided you have to be dead to have something named after you, and what basis did they have for deciding that?
by 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...