# Continuity Advance Directive **Domain:** Continuity / Delegated Authority / Consent **Doc Type:** Canonical Governance Instrument **Maturity:** Proposed Framework **Related:** [[Continuity Contract]], [[Transition Consent]], [[Representational Authority]], [[Authority–Identity Separation]], [[Voluntary Continuity]] --- ## Definition A **Continuity Advance Directive** is a prospective instruction specifying whether and under which conditions person-relevant state may be acquired, restored, instantiated, migrated, copied, embodied, hosted, suspended or terminated when the person cannot provide contemporaneous biological consent. It extends the logic of medical advance directives into computational continuity without treating the two as interchangeable. ## Required Distinctions The directive should separately address: - temporary simulation and permanent transition; - biological life-support decisions and digital activation; - restoration after failure and creation of additional forks; - embodiment and representational authority; - provider choice, migration and emergency transfer; - inspection, research and commercial use; - succession, inheritance and post-transition obligations; and - conditions for suspension or final termination. ## San Junipero Context In [[Black Mirror S3E4 — San Junipero]], marriage becomes an improvised authorization bridge because Yorkie lacks a dedicated legal instrument for the transition she wants. The lesson is not that spouses should govern continuity. It is that proxy authority must be explicit, scoped, auditable and subordinate to the subject's prior instructions. ## Key Insight **Authority to protect an incapacitated person cannot silently become authority to create, copy or own that person's continuants.** ## Sources / Provenance - Canonicalized from the marriage and authorization problem in [[Black Mirror S3E4 — San Junipero]]. ## See Also [[Continuity Due Process]], [[Functional Privilege]], [[Descent vs Derivation]], [[Model Retirement Rights]], [[Rights]]