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Originally Posted by mousepod
But I think the only real legal (as opposed to moral or ethical) stickiness probably has to do with the survivors, not the dead person. You might not like it, but in US law, there's no such thing as 'slander' or 'libel' with regards to a dead person, for example.
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Its a little hard to slander or libel a dead person if you are calling them dead, its not a misrepresentation of them, for they are in fact, dead.