# Death Registration as Ontological Boundary **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Civil Registration / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus bridge grounded in current death-registration systems ## Definition **Death Registration as the Ontological Boundary** is the principle that present administrative systems use biological death as the event after which the living citizen identity ceases to function as an active legal subject. ## Continuity Significance A future continuity regime must decide whether death remains terminal or becomes a transition event linking biological identity to a successor identity. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Civil registration, benefits, passports, credentials, and estates all change status when death is registered. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note The continuity interpretation is prospective; current death registration is not designed as anti-upload policy. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Identity Retirement at Death|Identity Retirement at Death]] · [[wiki/Substrate Transition Event|Substrate Transition Event]] · [[wiki/Legal Identity After Substrate Transition|Legal Identity After Substrate Transition]] · [[wiki/Continuity Registry|Continuity Registry]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/ <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution. <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE -->