# Digital Afterlife Government Precedents **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Comparative Law / Government **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Evidence router across Levels A–F ## Definition **Digital Afterlife Government Precedents** organizes statutes, policies, programs, deliberations, and publicly funded research that approximate pieces of continuity architecture. ## Continuity Significance It lets readers distinguish what governments have actually done from what the continuity corpus infers those mechanisms could later support. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Principal clusters include France, Spain, Chile, Council of Europe, EU Virtual Human Twins, EUDI, UN legal identity, data embassies, national archives, digital-replica law, and high-velocity digital jurisdictions. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note A mechanism becomes relevant because of function, not because it secretly shares the project's thesis. ## Key Insight **Search for the functions the future requires.** ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Digital Afterlife|Digital Afterlife]] · [[wiki/Continuity Evidence Ladder|Continuity Evidence Ladder]] · [[wiki/France Article 85 Postmortem Data Directives|France Article 85 Postmortem Data Directives]] · [[wiki/European Virtual Human Twins Initiative|European Virtual Human Twins Initiative]] · [[wiki/UN Legal Identity Agenda and Death|UN Legal Identity Agenda and Death]] · [[wiki/Estonia-Luxembourg Data Embassy|Estonia-Luxembourg Data Embassy]]