Burying a corpse

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Often appears with: repayment of benefits · law vs social convention · equity, mercy, and pardon · contracts, oaths, and obligation · benefit can be given against will

Usually: argument (1) · betrayal (1) · detachment (1)

L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits primary

Lucius Annaeus Seneca · c. 59-65 CE (approx.)
BOOK I. The prevalence of ingratitude--How a benefit ought to be bestowed--The three Graces--Benefits are the chief bond of human society--What we owe in return for a benefit received--A benefit consists not of a thing but of the wish to do good--Socrates and > BOOK V. (19/22)

Seneca explains that a benefit can be received even unwillingly or with hostile feelings, and gives the example of burying a recognized corpse, then addresses whether repayment may be demanded.

for there follows it this endless chain of people, to whom it is hard to assign bounds, because they join it by degrees, and are always creeping on towards it. XX. A common question is, "Two brothers are at variance. If I save the life of one, do I confer a benefit upon the other, who will be sorry that his hated brother did not perish?" There can be no doubt that it is a benefit to do good to a man, even against th…