 So far we have been talking about this situation where the client is either a child or an adult or a teenager but it's an alive client. Now we have to talk about confidentiality issues even when a person is being died. So it's a mental health professional's duty to maintain the confidentiality of a client even after his or her death. It's not a simple material that if you say that an individual is not in this world then its information can be easily provided to others. Often mental health professionals will encounter circumstances in which their solution must rely on ethical principles as well as legal standards. So even to protect and safeguard the secrets of dead people is an ethical and legal and moral duty of a therapist. Consider the following actual case. Now this is a case which is being happened in real that after the death of the client the therapist made unsolicited disclosure regarding the deceased former client. Now he probably didn't have any idea about this rule and the therapist has released some confidential information about the client who had passed through the world. Commenting in public that the client has allegedly reported experiencing abuse at the hand of some person. A court subsequently barred the therapist from seeing the patient for 90 days and placed her on three years probation. Now he was accused of seeing the patient for 90 days because he had released a statement about the abuse of the patient and he reached the client's confidentiality. Courts announced a decision commenting. Now what were the actual words of the court? Therapy is based on privacy and secrecy and the breach of confidentiality destroys the therapeutic relationship. So because that very therapist has destroyed the therapeutic relationship even being the client is dead he is being punished for that. The key to resolving such issues with involving remembering that clients to do some rites of confidentiality even after their death. So this is very important to remember that confidentiality just by dislocating an individual's individuality and ending their therapy even after their therapy is over even after they leave this world their rite remains sustained. These rites guard them from defamation and other issues and also give due consideration of the welfare of the survivors. Sometimes the disease that we are protecting confidentiality is basically giving protection to its family members. If we open those things sometimes it can be a threat for its family members. So a therapist needs to make a reasonable assessment of when and where it is appropriate to maintain the confidentiality because confidentiality is a ethical point of view to which the treatment has been given and it's the key to the success of the treatment.