Speaking ill of the dead when you're a victim

I'm really curious on people's opinions because me and my husband were talking about this. We found out Liam Payne died and it's really interesting because he was getting hate for being exposed for being an abusive person and now that he's dead it's like switched and people are coming for his victim. My husband has very strong feelings about this situation because he went through something similar several years ago during covid for SA awareness month he talked about his abuse from when he did boy scouts. Two months after he made that video his old troop leader died to suicide and he had to deal with hate and people telling him to take down the video and the man's wife asking him to because it's causing that family pain. When he didn't he basically got death threats causing him to delete his entire tiktok. Me and my husband share the same opinion. Dying does not mean the victims of what you have done are no longer victims and they are allowed to talk about it. Blaming victims for "driving" their abuser to kill themselves just because they spoke out about what happened is gross and this may sound bad. If you kill yourself to escape the consequences of your actions, you're a coward. I'm not saying that Liam Paynes death isn't sad. Or even the person who hurt my husband's death didn't effect his family. I just think this whole don't speak ill on the dead even if the dead person hurt you is just a way to silence victims. Their actions didn't die with them. They still happened. I think if you had a loved one who did some fucked up shit, don't expect the people they hurt to stop talking about it just because they're dead now. That's my take. Maybe it's a hot one. I don't know