So, I just learned something that I think is rather strange.
You can't slander a person after he/she is dead.
It's legal to say anything you want about anybody, but they have to be dead.
I was going on about how I had heard someone making extremely disparaging comments about an author that I happen to like. I was saying that if I was his family...
Well, it turns out that his family doesn't have a thing to say about anything that anyone wants to say about him. He's dead. Reputation be hanged.
Wow. I can't believe with all the litigation out there, that defamation of character can't be posthumously litigated. True, the guy can't be put on the stand. But it seems like there should be some burden of proof on people who want to trash other's reputations publicly.
Of course, there is always the possibility that everything they said was absolutely true.
In which case I have to say that the guy would totally lose MY respect! ICK!
So why go on about this? I just think it's strange. That's all.
