Remembering and Disremembering the Dead Posthumous Punishment, Harm and Redemption over Time

This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs a...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2017
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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