Should dead people be recycled?

Fitzy wrote:

Recycled? How about turning them into bio-robota and then putting them to work in the fields? We can empty their skulls and replace their brains with computers. No harm done.

H.P. Lovecraft in "The Mound wrote:

The fate of T’la-yub was less happy. There being no object in retaining her, and her ancient Tsathic lineage giving her act a greater aspect of treason than Zamacona’s had possessed, she was ordered to be delivered to the curious diversions of the amphitheatre; and afterward, in a somewhat mutilated and half-dematerialised form, to be given the functions of a y’m-bhi or animated corpse-slave and stationed among the sentries guarding the passage whose existence she had betrayed. Zamacona soon heard, not without many pangs of regret he could scarcely have anticipated, that poor T’la-yub had emerged from the arena in a headless and otherwise incomplete state, and had been set as an outermost guard upon the mound in which the passage had been found to terminate. She was, he was told, a night-sentinel, whose automatic duty was to warn off all comers with a torch; sending down reports to a small garrison of twelve dead slave y’m-bhi and six living but partly dematerialised freemen in the vaulted, circular chamber if the approachers did not heed her warning. She worked, he was told, in conjunction with a day-sentinel—a living freeman who chose this post in preference to other forms of discipline for other offences against the state. Zamacona, of course, had long known that most of the chief gate-sentries were such discredited freemen.
It was now made plain to him, though indirectly, that his own penalty for another escape-attempt would be service as a gate-sentry—but in the form of a dead-alive y’m-bhi slave, and after amphitheatre-treatment even more picturesque than that which T’la-yub was reported to have undergone. It was intimated that he—or parts of him—would be reanimated to guard some inner section of the passage; within sight of others, where his abridged person might serve as a permanent symbol of the rewards of treason. But, his informants always added, it was of course inconceivable that he would ever court such a fate. So long as he remained peaceably in K’n-yan, he would continue to be a free, privileged, and respected personage

Erichs_Pastry_Chef wrote:

the dead have legal rights too, and good.

Erichs_Pastry_Chef wrote:

Did you read the thread?
You require consent to take organs from a dead person, otherwise it is illegal.
You are not allowed to have sex with a dead person.
These acts qualify as a breach of the legal status a corpse has - and as the civil party is no longer able to represent themselves, it must therefore become a criminal act, in the case of the UK the Crown takes up prosecution a la any other criminal case.

Clupea wrote:

if, as you conceive, a corpse retains rights to their person, but is able to transfer ownership of specific organs by pre-arranged agreement, what's to stop them agreeing that another party has permission to copulate with them?

proletarian wrote:

The conditionality of the situation. Because a woman who agrees to have sex with a man at one point in time, can refuse at another, and since consent cannot be given in conditional circumstances for a corpse, the "conditional consent" must be presented without the benefit of the doubt.