In a broader sense, having your family profit from those works after your death may stimulate one to focus on creating creative works rather than a different source of income where assets accrued can benefit them. In particular in cases where your spouse and children are dependant on your income. That it should be restricted by a lot is obvious by now of course.
Also: not having copyright expire upon your death prevents making your (untimely and assisted) death less attractive to anyone who would greatly benefit from those rights to disappear, although I do hope that is a hypothetical edge case.
> , having your family profit from those works after your death may stimulate one to focus on creating creative works
I'd argue the exact opposite, that reduce the incentive to produce new work, why creating new work when you can profit from old ones you haven't put any effort into it?
> Also: not having copyright expire upon your death prevents making your (untimely and assisted) death less attractive to anyone who would greatly benefit from those rights to disappear, although I do hope that is a hypothetical edge case.
That could be a good argument for it yes, I haven't thought about the external pressure.
Also: not having copyright expire upon your death prevents making your (untimely and assisted) death less attractive to anyone who would greatly benefit from those rights to disappear, although I do hope that is a hypothetical edge case.