Posthumous is used to describe something that happens after a person's death but relates to something they did before they died. the posthumous publication of his first novel. + posthumously post·hu·mous·ly After the war she was posthumously awarded the George Cross. happening, printed etc after someone's death (posthumus, from postumus , from posterus; POSTERIOR)
[ 'päs-ch&-m&s a ] (adjective.) 1619. From Latin posthumus, a variant spelling of postumus, superlative form of posterus, by association with humus ("ground, earth") referring to burial.