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Re:JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family con... by function_seven on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:56PM (#19082240)
Wholeheartedly agree. Once you're dead, you're dead. One's last wishes should definitely be respected to the first degree. That is, whomever you will your money, possessions, or property to should get those things. There should not be any strings attached beyond that, to the extent that a living person could not tie those same strings (or choose later to untie them)
Re:JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family con... by balladeer on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:35PM (#19082847)
What if I do not want to leave my money to anyone, or part of it?
Re:JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family con... by function_seven on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:56PM (#19082924)
I’m not a lawyer, so I’m not sure. I imagine it would go to the state? Or you could specify the most extravagant funeral ever and be laid to rest in a diamond-encrusted gold coffin.
Re:JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family con... by logfromblammo on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:45AM (#19086981)
Property without heirs escheats to the state/crown. Wealth buried in your mausoleum goes to grave robbers, eventually.

You could pull a Goldfinger, and irradiate a bunch of gold bars, or otherwise render your wealth unvaluable or unspendable, but that just decreases the wealth supply and makes everything else in the economy a tiny fraction more valuable.

Even if you bought an extravagant Viking funeral, and burned your grave ship, and sank all your treasure to the bottom of the ocean, the world still turns without you. The value of money, goods, and services still depend mostly on the active participants in the economy. When you destroyed the representational tokens for the wealth in the economy that you controlled, their value was immediately redistributed to all the other tokens in existence, and those with the information about the destroyed tokens can theoretically earn arbitrage profit by spreading that information around.

The best you can do is to write a program that spends your estate after your death, give it to your lawyer to compile and execute on the legal mainframe, and hope no one can hack it before it accomplishes your intended goal.

Re:JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family con... by function_seven on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:29PM (#19091189)
> The best you can do is to write a program that spends your estate after your death, give it to your lawyer to compile and execute on the legal mainframe, and hope no one can hack it before it accomplishes your intended goal.

This is way cooler than my gold coffin idea!

Finally, a use for Etherium I can get behind.