Apparently Nicolaus Copernicus, the guy who came up with the conception of the solar system set up the way it really is, heliocentric, with the sun at the center, and the Earth revolving around it in an orbit like the other planets, and the moon orbiting the Earth, thought his theory would so shake up the order of things that he arranged for it to be published right around his death, presumably so he couldn’t get in trouble with the Church for heresy or whatnot. And this made me think of something…
Why not have a publishing company called Deathbed Press, and it would publish books for people to be published right around or immediately after their deaths. That way, the authors could write about things that might have gotten them in trouble during their lifetimes, but which contain important things for posterity to know about. Like, say, some suppressed information, the revelation of some important someone’s secretive corruption, the admission that the author had committed a murder or some elaborate hoax or fraud or crime during their lives, etc. And no matter what they wrote, they couldn’t be sued for defamation, nor for violating any oaths of secrecy or confidentiality, because they wouldn’t have released the information during their lifetimes, but the information would get out all the same.
And Deathbed Press, the company that publishes this stuff, would be immune from prosecution because they would simply be executing someone’s last will and testament by publishing the book that it was the author’s dying wish to publish. And if funds were left in the author’s will to pay for the publication, Deathbed Press could actually end up being not a company, but a name for a method of releasing important information after death, but always using the same name and logo impression on the books. Now wouldn’t that be interesting?
