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Originally Posted by pdurrant
It isn't that the dead don't sue for libel (because they're dead), it's that it is impossible in law to libel the dead.
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Exactly. One has only to consider the several cases in recent years where allegations of impropriety have been made against public figures following their deaths. Those accusations would certainly have resulted in libel lawsuits had they been made while the person concerned was alive, but there is no legal recourse for living relatives once the person has died.