# Digital Afterlife Rights and Personhood **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Rights / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis with legal and human-rights anchors ## Definition **Digital Afterlife Rights and Personhood** organizes status questions arising when postmortem data becomes an increasingly agentic representation and may eventually become a plausible rights claimant. ## Continuity Significance It distinguishes negative rights—privacy, dignity, non-manipulation, mental integrity, no unauthorized reconstruction—from positive rights such as preservation, service, portability, and continued recognition. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Current law recognizes fragments: posthumous personality and data interests, digital-replica control, mental-integrity and psychological-continuity discourse, and nonhuman legal-personhood debate. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Do not collapse moral standing, legal identity, citizenship, functional privilege, and sovereignty into one personhood bit. ## Key Insight **Search for the functions the future requires.** ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Digital Afterlife|Digital Afterlife]] · [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] · [[wiki/Post-Biological Personhood|Post-Biological Personhood]] · [[wiki/Psychological Continuity|Psychological Continuity]] · [[wiki/Posthumous Privacy|Posthumous Privacy]] · [[wiki/Digital Replica|Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/Rights-Bearing Computational Subject|Rights-Bearing Computational Subject]] · [[wiki/Dual Constitution of AI|Dual Constitution of AI]]