Should An Dying Author’s Last Wishes Be Respected?

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A fascinating piece in the Guardian newspaper a couple of days ago, about dead authors and their wishes for their work after they are dead. Everybody knows how Kafka got royally screwed by his so-called friend Max Brod (mentioned in this article). Kafka wanted his work destroyed unread and unpublished, and Brod did the exact opposite.

But there have been so many other cases and the Guardian piece does a nice job of summarising some of them. Even the ones obeying the author to destroy any un...