# Contractualization of the Digital Afterlife **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Contract / Governance **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis ## Definition **Contractualization of the Digital Afterlife** is the process by which postmortem choices become expressed through directives, trusts, service terms, licenses, fiduciary appointments, funding commitments, and succession clauses. ## Continuity Significance It reveals that persistence is not merely metaphysical; once services and custodians are involved, terms and counterparties matter. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Cryonics, digital estates, postmortem data directives, trusts, and platform legacy programs already use contractual or directive forms. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Contract cannot waive every future right of an autonomous continuant and cannot substitute for public-law protections where power is asymmetric. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Eternal Disposition Contract|Eternal Disposition Contract]] · [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]] · [[wiki/Service-Level Constitutionalism|Service-Level Constitutionalism]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]]