# 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]]