Quazie wrote:
>This is just to ensure that dead humans can be considered people if
>they need to be.
But they're not people. They have no social personality and no capacity
to act on their own behalf. They should correspondingly have no legal
personality. It's vitally important that we recognise that they're not
valid subjects of duties.
(Actually, in Western culture, a human who has just died is still
*socially* treated as a person until the funeral. The funeral is what
changes the deceased's status from a dead person ("Mr Smith, who has
just died") to an ex-person ("the late Mr Smith"). Nevertheless, *legal*
personhood terminates with death.)
We've never had a first-class player die, at least that we know of.
(We may have processed some under the abandonment rules.) If one did,
we'd probably have to pass a one-off proposal to deregister em promptly.
The last paragraph of R869 deliberately doesn't allow deregistration of
anyone who has been first-class, to avoid problems with potential scams
or screwups that withdraw legal personhood from first-class players.
-zefram
