 Does the theory of surviving duties contribute to an understanding of the moral significance of the fact that past people were severely wronged? Here we consider the notion that if people (possibly as members of ongoing societies) can be said to have an obligation to compensate surviving and indirect victims of past injustices (see  §5.1  and  §5.2),  they may also have an obligation symbolically to compensate dead victims of past injustices, people who cannot now be affected by actions of currently living people (Meyer 2005: ch. 3; Meyer 2018).