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To: Neocon who wrote (1904)	3/4/1999 9:43:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13062

You didn't read the post did you? When we determined that my body is mine, and that there are certain rights associated with it, we created a physical AND a legal entity. These entities are separate, but equal to each other. All things that are mine via purchase, gift, discovery are of use to the physical entity, but are property of the legal entity, which it allows full use and benefit of. Upon termination of the physical entity, the legal entity lives on, and all things pursuant to it, as part of me UNTIL my last will and testament is handled. At that point, I cease to exist as a temporal being. This is not a societal function, as I stated, it is a function of whomever the responsibility is accorded to. Basically, my private property becomes "theirs" to divvy up as executor. There is no "law" that requires it be done this way, nor does there need to be. It will likely be followed as a part of decorum. As many contested wills show, having laws doesn't afford any likelyhood that the legal entity's will is properly executed, regardless of the "virtue" supporting the law. If I have no family, AND leave no will...then society can do as it pleases with my "stuff" (although I still fail to see what society is doing with it...it's usually the gov't glomming). As you clearly point out, things can happen that would seemingly deny that property rights are meaningful after I pass away. That is meaningless. They are far more meaningful and important when I am alive. While I hope my will and testament is followed after I am dead, I am dead...so who cares? However, we have developed traditions and laws that dictate a decorum that prevents the seeming denial of rights that you point to. Fact is, every law on the books that deals with the end of my temporal being gives me more property rights than laws that exist while I am alive.