@sandy @Sp on a technicality, yes. corpse is not able to give consent.

loophole for that would be writing in your will that you're okay with being fucked posthumously; it'd be on the same level as donating your organs for science or to a hospital or to those places the feds use to study how various bodies decay in different circumstances.
@sandy @Sp you could argue that corpses being unalive and non-sentient means they don't need to give consent, but at that point you'd have to strip corpses of other equivalent "respect rights" that make us give them burial ceremonies and prevent people from desecrating corpses and graves.
@bitterblossom @Sp @sandy those aren't rights possessed by the corpse, which is just an object that can't consent any more than a dildo can, they're rights possessed by the family that owns the corpse.
@mushroomfemboy @Sp @sandy those responsibilities/privileges of decision making are no different than they are with a live vegetable in a coma.

in all situations, society expects the deceased/etc subject to have written a will or other legally notarized document stating the intent to consent or refute to specific treatments posthumously. in the event that circumstances do not allow for that to be followed, or a clear will of the actual owner cannot be acquired, the family (or other legal entity; it isn't always a relative or spouse or child), the any decisions that need to be made which are not accounted for become the responsiility falls to whoever that "next of kin" or legal representative is.

the body itself has the right to not be desecrated and to be interred or otherwise dealt with in a respectful fashion (determined by culture and religion mainly). nobody else gets rights to the body unless consent is provided prior to death, or the legally responsible party gives consent posthumously. that party doesn't have "rights" over the corpse, only the responsibility to represent the best interests and wishes of the deceased individual. and that isn't even proper representative authority; if the goverment feels like it wants to refuse and do as it pleases with the corpse (usually in relation to criminal autopsies) the govt does as it fucking pleases.

people don't really care though. they care that burial services and coffins are maliciously overpriced, and they care about putting up a front and hosting a big cry-fest wake to score pity points and compete for whatever elements of the deceased's estates are unaccounted for or unclearly determined by the will (if there even is one).

you have no privileges, just responsibility - and an expensive one, if you don't just tell the coroner to ship the corpse off to the nearest crematorium and mail back a bag of mixed ashes.
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@bitterblossom @Sp @mushroomfemboy @sandy I think it's fucking criminal that people can't bury their loved ones in the back yard. But this isn't about freedom, it's about control, every corpse must be catalogued and accounted for, can't have corpses being dug up every time a new owner decides to do some landscaping :blobrollingeyes:

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