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Originally posted by ltl/fb
What good is a right if I can't do anything with it? It's just a big gubmint plot to keep all the info for themselves so that they can implant mind control chips in all of us.
There should be a free market in that information. Businesses can make a lot of money off our medical records . . . Why shouldn't the entity that compiled the information (hospital, doctor, clinic) be able to sell it??????
Seriously, I think that to an extent the "right" is not that much. And a dead person can't enforce the right.
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I think there are lots of rights post-death, just not an ability to enjoy or enforce them. But, when I buy that burial plot, I believe it is my right to lie there forever (well, until the maggots, etc. are done) and to have the damn stone sit there and someone pull weeds every now and then. Some rights die with me, but others don't.
But rights of any sort are just a social construct. The 12th century peasant would have no concept of "owning" property, merely of having rights and obligations as a result of his station, including rights and obligations in land that his children would later take on. So those rights I think I've got after death are really a present right I have while still alive.
Too bad death isn't just a social construct.