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You might enjoy reading Transmetropolitan - it's a comic where one of the aspects of the future it is set in is that people who are revived are pretty much unwanted nuisances that usually end up with severe mental problems. They do get nice new bodies, though.

The Bobiverse is entertaining also.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_E._Taylor#Bobiverse_(20...

That's why you leave your kids peppercorns in your will

Aren't there trusts that can protect against this?

You're trusting the living to not overrule the dead. A trust is only as good as the system willing to enforce it.

Ah yes many such cases from history of human race, when monarch want to govern, but impatient son is willing to coup whole establishment, just to govern himself. In best case, parent will just get blinded Byzantian style.