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Originally Posted by Hitch
By your lights--"Dead people don't create!"--if I finished a hotel, in, say, this year, and then got hit by a bus, my spouse and my estate would NOT be entitled to receive the compensation that I was due. So: precisely, what's the difference, then, between MY deferred/delayed compensation, and that of an author? What, there's some argument that I'm somehow different than they? I'm not. I worked; I earned it; it came to pass that it wasn't payable to me until AFTER I died. I fail to see one iota of difference, other than--other people aren't trying to GET what I earned, away from me, for their own use/benefit.
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You have quite thoroughly convinced me that all forms of inheritance should be abolished. When someone dies, their property should revert to common (e.g., state) property. Voila! Problem solved.