On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Kerim Aydin<ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, comex wrote: >> It says "depends on", not "depends only on". If one or more factors >> is necessary to preserve the existence of an entity, and one of them >> is the contract, then its existence depends on the contract. > > And my dependents would survive without me but they *legally* depend > on me. It's a legal distinction.
No, their *existence* does not depend on you, legally or otherwise. -- -c.
