[mulmen]

That’s pretty short sighted. Do you take that view of everything that can happen after you die? Should terminal patients still vote?

[lostapathy]

It could be argued rights are something a person has. Once you die, you are no longer a person. Dead people don't have a right to vote.

I think a much stronger argument is to be made that your surviving family/friends have a right to privacy that somehow includes aspects of deceased relatives lives staying secret. But that makes it a right for the living, not the dead.

[mulmen]

While I disagree with the idea that the dead have no rights I do understand it.

Even if we accept that I still think it is short sighted for the living to only consider consequences up to their own death and not beyond.

[mesozoic]

Voting is pointless anyway so let them have a go

[mulmen]

Do you really believe that?

I’m not suggesting the dead should vote. I’m saying the living consider the consequences of their vote even if they don’t think they will live to see it.