According to the dictionary necrophilia is the sexual attraction or
sexual act which involves corpses. It is also described as the obsession with usually erotic interest in or stimulation by courses. In the history, this practice is already present within the Ancient Egypt. And in order to discourage the sexual intercourse with the corpse according to the writings of Herodotus The Histories , they will left a deceased beautiful women to decompose for “three or four days” before the corpse to be given into the embalmers. He also employed a metaphor to the Greek tyrant Periander that had defiled the corpse of his wife , “Periander baked his bread in a cold oven.” Nowadays necrophilia is also wide spread. According to Journal of forensic sciences 55 (2), 443-446, 2010 there is a closed case-file review of 211 sexual homicides identified 16 cases of necrophilia. Many countries regulates the case of this necrophilia. In Australia necrophilia is not explicitly mentioned in the Australian law, but it is under the Crimes Act 1900 – Sect 81C that states misconduct with regard to corpse is any person who have interaction esp. in sexual. In United Kingdom sexual intercourse with the corpse was made illegal under the Sexual Offenses Act 2003, that can sentence a maximum of 2 years of imprisonment. Prior to this, necrophilia was not illegal; however, if you exposed the body of the corpse naked in public it was classed as a public nuisance (Rv. Clark [1883] 15 Cox 171). But in United States there is no federal legislations about having a sex with a corpse. Multiple states have their own laws. And And according to UDHR we have this rights even if we cannot stand it up for ourselves like when we are dead. Having a sex with a corpse is prohibited as it is based on the histories that have been recorded, proving that necrophilia is illegal and discouraged. And it is also violates the human rights of a person even if it is dead. The dead can’t bring claims, but the living people can bring it of course on their behalf, for them to be protected and for them to be treated the same and experience the equality.