Full Idea
It is popularly believed that some good and evil, such as honours, or disasters of children, can happen to a dead man, inasmuch as they can happen to a live one without his being aware of them.
Gist of Idea
Some good and evil can happen to the dead, just as the living may be unaware of a disaster
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1100a17)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.82
A Reaction
This suggests 'internalist' and 'externalist' accounts of happiness, with eudaimonia being the externalist view. If an architect designs a spectacular building, and it collapses the day after they die, that has to be a disaster for the architect.