The rights of the corpse

Abstract

The notion of the rights of the corpse can provoke incredulous reaction, seeming as it does to denigrate the concept of rights and to assign an ontological status to the corpse that defies reason. On the contrary, however, it can be demonstrated that the social corpse is constructed as a repository of meaning and value: that it remains human and, in a social sense, animate. Rights, deriving from obligations, are shown to inhere in the corpse as a result of the duties that we continue to acknowledge to it.

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