“Death is the most terrible of all things; for it is the end, and nothing is thought to be any longer either good or bad for the dead.”
-- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
The halt can manage a horse, the handless a flock, The deaf be a doughty fighter, To be blind is better than to burn on a pyre: There is nothing the dead can do.
Venerating a corpse does it no good, and vilifying it does it no harm.
(I suppose I should add a qualifier—I mean either a non-cryonically suspended legal corpse,
or an information-theoretically-dead corpse. That covers the case if one were to extend “venerate” to include
include maintaining-in-cryonic-suspension)
“Death is the most terrible of all things; for it is the end, and nothing is thought to be any longer either good or bad for the dead.”
-- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
The halt can manage a horse,
the handless a flock,
The deaf be a doughty fighter,
To be blind is better than to burn on a pyre:
There is nothing the dead can do.
-- Havamal
--Sayings of the High One
Venerating a corpse does it no good, and vilifying it does it no harm.
(I suppose I should add a qualifier—I mean either a non-cryonically suspended legal corpse, or an information-theoretically-dead corpse. That covers the case if one were to extend “venerate” to include include maintaining-in-cryonic-suspension)