If America has failed to provide paths to success for it’s own citizen, it’s because the very successful have destroyed those paths, not because Americans have failed. The end of this thinking is America is inhabited only by very rich people and slaves, regardless of whether they are citizens or not. This thinking will kick out the tired, the poor, the huddled American masses yearning to be free that it created. Shapiro and co are absolutely incapable of compassion or empathy except in their own self interest.
The object never has agency. The person does. This edge case is a fine one, but only suggests that the person is dormant, not gone, and can be returned to life. If a body is in a morgue for a week, that ain’t going to be a possibility.
When alive, the body was a person. They are not incapacitated through death, they dead. Gone. The person ceases to be and only the object and memories remain.
Things don’t have agency at all. If you want to interact with a dead person, pay a medium for a show. A dead body is a thing and doesn’t have agency. Consent isn’t applicable to things without agency, like objects.
Imagine how good it would feel to have worked to make that good thing happen…