“I shall never die completely, for some of me will persist…”. Cultural and legal dimension of burial, legal protection of the image of corpses and the issue of grave inscriptions as cultural goods Cover Image

„Nie wszystek umrę, wiele ze mnie tu zostanie…” Kulturowe i prawne aspekty pochówku, wizerunku zwłok oraz napisów nagrobnych
“I shall never die completely, for some of me will persist…”. Cultural and legal dimension of burial, legal protection of the image of corpses and the issue of grave inscriptions as cultural goods

Author(s): Jacek Mazurkiewicz, Piotr Szymaniec
Subject(s): Civil Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: corpses; human remains; cultural goods; burial; image protection;

Summary/Abstract: Human remains, not just corpses, are sometimes cultural goods. In the second part of our work, we present selected legal aspects of burials and images of human remains. The protection of burial and the image of human remains are legal issues that are very culturally determined, and that feature affects the approach to them found in case-law. The study indicates that both respect for the corpses and human remains, as well as image protection are associated with the residue of the right to human dignity.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 46
  • Page Range: 261-276
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish