<story><title>Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68488756.amp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drunkpotato</author><text>Why? They’re dead. Not trying to be flippant, I honestly don’t get why the deceased’s desires should be elevated over the living’s. It’s a moral choice I don’t agree with and don’t entirely understand.</text></item><item><author>csdvrx</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not unusual for authors to express a desire for their unpublished works to be destroyed. Kafka wanted all his unpublished works to be destroyed - consider these are most of his known works now, we&amp;#x27;re quite lucky his executor, Max Brod, defied his wishes.&lt;p&gt;Are we lucky, or was Kafka unlucky?&lt;p&gt;I find the lack of respect about authors&amp;#x27; wishes very shocking.</text></item><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not unusual for authors to express a desire for their unpublished works to be destroyed. Kafka wanted all his unpublished works to be destroyed - consider these are most of his known works now, we&amp;#x27;re quite lucky his executor, Max Brod, defied his wishes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jzb</author><text>They weren&amp;#x27;t deceased when they expressed the desire. You usually don&amp;#x27;t know when, exactly, you&amp;#x27;re going to die. Nobody would argue, I hope, with &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m going on a trip, don&amp;#x27;t publish anything I&amp;#x27;m not done with until I get back and finish it.&amp;quot; This just happens to be a very long, one-way trip.&lt;p&gt;That said, I do think once someone is dead, there&amp;#x27;s some argument whether you have to respect that. But I at least understand the desire.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68488756.amp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drunkpotato</author><text>Why? They’re dead. Not trying to be flippant, I honestly don’t get why the deceased’s desires should be elevated over the living’s. It’s a moral choice I don’t agree with and don’t entirely understand.</text></item><item><author>csdvrx</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not unusual for authors to express a desire for their unpublished works to be destroyed. Kafka wanted all his unpublished works to be destroyed - consider these are most of his known works now, we&amp;#x27;re quite lucky his executor, Max Brod, defied his wishes.&lt;p&gt;Are we lucky, or was Kafka unlucky?&lt;p&gt;I find the lack of respect about authors&amp;#x27; wishes very shocking.</text></item><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not unusual for authors to express a desire for their unpublished works to be destroyed. Kafka wanted all his unpublished works to be destroyed - consider these are most of his known works now, we&amp;#x27;re quite lucky his executor, Max Brod, defied his wishes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itishappy</author><text>Does this apply to inheritance too? Why should we care what happens to our kids once we die?</text></comment>