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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by oh_sigh on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @11:36AM (#15133011)
A compromise would have been nice. Perhaps digitize the notes and only release them after every person that was alive in the world at the moment of Pratchett's death was also dead.
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Re:Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller by kyle-rb on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @07:01PM (#15136847)
>only release them after every person that was alive in the world at the moment of Pratchett's death was also dead

I wonder if, around 100 years from now, that would create a tontine type scenario.

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