Will, Trusts, and Estate Prof Blog alerted me to a new book by professor Ray Madoff of Boston College.  In Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead, Professor Madoff addresses the increasing power and practice to allow people to control things well after they are dead. This relates back to my earlier post on the cultural bias I think we demonstrate when we consider whether Inheritance is a Right or Privilege.   I'm certainly a part of that.  After all, the concept of creating an intentional legacy assumes that you have the ability to exert some control over situations and events even after you are gone.  It may be a false assumption, but without it we would never try to forge a legacy.  Yet, should there be more limits on what people can do with their money, property, reputation and family after they are death?  Should death extinguish some control, most control or all control?  I don't know but it's worth pondering.