What are the laws actually guiding issues like this? Who actually owns space bodies? Is outer space actually a no man’s land?
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A will isn’t a magic genie lamp. You can’t put anything you like in a will and just expect it to magically happen. Even if the deceased was a billionaire, and had sufficient resources in their estate to achieve this, the technology existed to do it, and it wasn’t against any laws, regulations, treaties, etc; ultimately it’s up to the executor of the will whether they adhere to such requests.
If any stakeholder in the estate disagrees with the executor’s decision to follow or not follow certain requests, they can fight about it in court. But until moon colonisation and affordable commercial travel become a reality, expecting your body to be buried on the moon is pretty unreasonable and will easily be overturned by any sane court.
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