[sheepdestroyer]

I'm unsure why dead people would have rights. Is that concept really a good thing?

[free_bip]

The dead already have many rights:

- right to control distribution of property through a will

- right to control method of remains disposal (up to a point)

- right to dignified treatment (e.g. no desecration of the remains)

- rights against posthumous defamation- rights to control how their likeness, name, and image are used posthumously

I fail to understand how this proposal would be any different.

[sheepdestroyer]

Sure, I am quite against all of them already:

The first one has been argued against quite nicely by Piketty, it's how you get plutocracy

The three other ones should not be treated as Rights since the concerned individual is no more, and they don't matter much anyway if coming against the rights of people (that means "living"). For instance collecting organs for the good of those who need, when evaluated, should trump any opposition on frivolous grounds.

I'm indead asking if the whole concept is not wrong and deeply harmful to societies

[eviks]

Because live people care a lot about that, so they create legal structures supporting it

[xterminator]

If you're not a crude materialist, you can believe in eternal soul. Shouldn't we honor the dead, in that case?

[sheepdestroyer]

Unless someone is hurt you can believe what you want. Otherwise it's necessary to weight what's to be gained and lost by entertaining net negative stances on frivolous grounds; and why we should then chose to do so.