Do dead people have human rights?

How do human rights function for the dead? How do you make sure your wishes are followed in death? Do human rights have an expiry date?

Dr. John Troyer, of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath, explains all.

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Really interesting as we were just talking about this last night as a group of social workers, do the dead have rights? And to what capacity? I did bring up the legal argument but does it go deeper than that? What about bodies that have been exhumed? Do they have rights? Interesting