[Mistletoe]

Thanks for restoring my faith in HN today. Sometimes I read the most absurd takes here and wonder if it is me that is wrong or crazy.

[sneak]

Dead people cannot be wronged. When someone dies, all obligations to that person are invalidated.

[rightbyte]

Promises are promises. The only fair argument the heirs could do is to claim the father didn't understand his decision to not wanting to publish the script.

[Aeolun]

Yes, but if there’s only one party that can be wronged by breaking the promise (e.g. feeling bad you broke a promise to your dead father), it becomes a bit different.

Sure, most people would feel terrible about doing that. But you would keep that promise out of respect, not because the dead are hurt by breaking it.

[sneak]

Promises to non-entities aren’t promises anymore.

[sanitycheck]

Uh-huh. So it might be OK to, for example, construct an animatronic human centipede out of fresh corpses? Or perhaps not?

[thfuran]

That sounds both unsanitary and wasteful of potentially useful organs. I'd recommend against it.

[Aeolun]

I mean, it would be disrespectful, and probably make a lot of people very unhappy, but it wouldn’t be the dead whose bodies you used.