Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the deceased persons had standing to file a constitutional complaint in their own name through counsel
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. Under Art. 31 ZGB, legal personality ends at death; deceased persons are not party-capable and cannot bring a complaint in their own name.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court reaffirmed settled case law rejecting the theory of postmortem personality protection as a basis for representing the dead in litigation. Existing Swiss doctrine protects the memory of the deceased only indirectly through the personal rights of relatives, not by granting the deceased continuing procedural capacity.