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Yale University Press
May 2010
On Sale: May 11, 2010
208 pages
ISBN: 0300121849
EAN: 9780300121841
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
This book takes a riveting look at how the law responds to
that distinctly American dream of immortality. While
American law provides virtually no protections for the
interests we hold most dear—our bodies and our
reputations—when it comes to property interests, the
American dead have greater control than anywhere else in the
world. Moreover, these rights are growing daily. From grave
robbery to Elvis impersonators, Madoff shows how the law of
the dead has a direct impact on how we live. Madoff examines
how the rising power of the American dead enables the
deceased to exert control over their wealth forever through
grandiose schemes like "dynasty trusts" and perpetual
private charitable foundations and to control their creative
works and identities well into the unforeseeable future.
Madoff explores how the law of the dead can, in essence,
extend the reach of life by granting virtual immortality to
individuals. All of this comes, Madoff contends, at real
costs imposed on the living.
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