If Necromancy suddenly became possible, can the undead be called as a witness during court proceedings? - eviltoast
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    4 months ago

    What do you mean by “possible”? Most jurisdictions have a law against interfering with the dead / a corpse, and necromancy, while suddenly possible would therefore remain highly illegal.

    Even if legalised, consider how often difficult decisions have to be made about whether to exhume a corpse to seek evidence of some sort. I can’t imagine it would be any easier to decide to have a corpse resurrected.

    Habeas corpus takes on an entirely different bent, for sure.

    There’s also the state of mind of someone who has been resurrected to take into account as well. There they were in oblivion or eternal rest or whatever it is that the dead experience and suddenly they’re dragged back to this mortal coil with thoughts, feelings and the knowledge they’ve been dead for a long time, and there’s living people who haven’t been through any of that throwing questions at them left, right and centre.

    If it happened often enough, advocacy groups for the unwillingly resurrected would be set up. And more people would opt for cremation.