# Can a dead person be stolen from?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-dead-person-be-stolen-from/668315
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 8, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-dead-person-be-stolen-from/668315 "2013-09-08T06:12:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-dead-person-be-stolen-from/668315/41 "2013-09-13T14:32:43Z")

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> [@Eliahna](#):
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> This is the case I was thinking of: [Carefully select the beneficiaries of your Will - MST Lawyers](http://www.mst.com.au/news/carefully-select-the-beneficiaries-of-your-will)

Thanks - that clarified it. The husband had no assets, so he had nothing to leave to his daughter when he died intestate.

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### Author: ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-dead-person-be-stolen-from/668315/42 "2013-09-13T19:46:20Z")

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> [@aceplace57](#):
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> So we can’t take the dead guys shoes? Darn it. He won’t be using them anymore anyhow.
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> 😃 😃

You should take them anyway and then go after the guy who killed you.

> [@The Twilight Zone](#):
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> A homeless man, Nate Bledsoe, snatches a pair of shoes from the target of a mob hit dumped in an alley…

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