Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Deuce
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 12:30 am

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Deuce to Angus McLeod on Wed Sep 14 2005 11:14:00

 > Yes, living people can make decisions.  The instant they're dead however, th
 > can't.

But a decision you made PRIOR to your death doesn't *cease* to be a 
decision of yours, does it?

 > If you said such a thing, it would be up to your heirs to weight your corpse
 > not, as they choose.  However, you're constantly asking what gives me the ri
 > to tell people what they can do with their assets.  Since dead people are
 > actually incapable of doing anything with their assets, there's no such
 > conflict.

Perhaps I should use smaller words From the instant of their death, their 
assets are no longer their assets.  They have become the assets of their 
heirs, who are free to make such decisions as they see fit.

 > I'm not telling the heirs what they can do with their assets.  I'm
 > merely saying that your assets don't become theirs immediately upon 
 > your death

Well, I'm saying that this is EXACTLY what they do.  (In a civilized 
country, anyway...)


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