Can we be harmed after we are dead?

Philosophers from antiquity onwards have asked whether we are harmed by death itself [1,2]. My question is different. I want to know whether we can be harmed by further events that happen after we are dead. While connected, the two questions are clearly distinct. Someone might think that death is normally a very bad thing for the deceased, yet hold that, once you are gone, you are beyond the reach of any further harms. This is not my view. I shall be arguing that, even after we are dead, we can be further harmed by subsequent events. This is not because I think that we somehow survive our deaths. I am quite convinced that once we are dead, we cease to exist in any sense. But even so I hold that events subsequent to our death can harm us. What happens after we are gone can make a genuine difference to our good or bad fortune. Note how my question has practical implications that are not raised by the more familiar question about death itself. On my view, we can well have reason to influence posthumous events so as to benefit the dead. For those who deny that people can be harmed after they are dead, their interests will cease to matter to others once they are gone. I disagree. I think that we can have reason to protect the interests of dead people.