"I don't think so. If the taxpayer died before the date the second payment was issued or before the first, then the payment is supposed to be returned."

That's because, if you read my input and the IRS guidance, the people whose 2018 tax return was used to Project the Advance, included people who had died in the meantime.

This is Backwards: "While returning checks sent to the dead was not mandated by the CARES Act or later legislation, at least one ethics expert thinks it’s the right thing to do"

People who died in 2020 were alive in 2020 and impacted. For all you know, that specific person died Because Of Covid-19.

"“The stimulus money was not intended to go to dead people. Ethically, the right thing would be to not cash the check.""

Oh, wow. Do you have any idea how this impacted people?

What other media mentions is that any funds you got and don't need, Donate it to others. Support your local food bank, for example.