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Postmortaler Schutz personaler Rechtsgüter im Strafrecht?
Zeitschrift für Lebensrecht, Vol. 32 (2023), Iss. 4 : pp. 517–529
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Prof. Dr. Juan Pablo Mañalich Raffo, Av. Santa María 076 7520405 Santiago, Chile
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The article addresses the question of whether penally reinforced conduct rules, such as those prohibiting forms of corpse or grave defamation, can have as their (purportedly legitimate) task the post-mortem protection of some personal “legal good”. The question is answered in the negative by means of an analysis of the so-called “problem of the subject”, namely by defending a restricted version of the “Epicurean” approach, which, against the Feinberg-Pitcher approach, sees in the fulfillment of the so-called “requirement of existence” a necessary condition for someone being the subject of a personal harm. Thereby, several argumentative strategies aimed at making intelligible the possibility of a posthumous harm are critically reviewed. Upon this negative result, a different kind of justification for the criminalization of behavior affecting the physical remains of a deceased human person is then outlined, based on the idea of a general protection of personal legal goods against forms of abstract endangerment. Finally, some remarks on the concept of death are introduced in order to demonstrate the compatibility of rejecting the claim that a person could suffer a posthumous harm with the assertion of the (possible) harmfulness of one’s own death.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Pablo Mañalich Raffo: Postmortaler Schutz personaler Rechtsgüter im Strafrecht? | 517 | ||
| I. Das Problem der postmortalen Schäden aus Sicht des biologischen Ansatzes | 517 | ||
| II. Die Vernichtungsthese und das Problem des Subjekts | 520 | ||
| III. Der Feinberg-Pitcher-Ansatz | 522 | ||
| IV. Biografisches Leben als Substrat „überlebender“ Interessen? | 525 | ||
| V. Leichnams- und Grabesbeschimpfung als allgemein-abstrakte Gefährdungsdelikte gegen (individuelle) Rechtsgüter lebender Personen | 526 | ||
| VI. Die Schädlichkeit des Todes für die sterbende Person | 527 |