‘Cash For Compliance, Buying Obedience After Death’

William A Drennan, ‘RIP – A Financial Incentive to Protect Your Cadaver?’, 129 Penn State Law Review 667 (2025). Who wouldn’t want to control things, even after death? The chance that your surviving family will not obey your wishes after you die is exactly why you create a last will and testament. We all long to control where our money and property goes, but shouldn’t people also be concerned with what for some of us is most important of all – where our body goes? William A Drennan’s ‘RIP – A Financial Incentive to Protect Your Cadaver?’, suggests a clever way for individuals to control the disposition of their body through financial incentives … (more)

[Gerry W Beyer, JOTWELL, 10 June 2026]

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