# Digital Death **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Identity / Platforms **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Emerging legal-social concept ## Definition **Digital Death** is the termination, retirement, deletion, memorialization, or loss of a person's digital identity, accounts, agentic representations, or access state following biological death or platform action. ## Continuity Significance Digital death can occur again through platform closure, credential failure, model retirement, or deletion. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Postmortem-data law, platform memorialization, digital-testament law, and regulator foresight govern parts of the phenomenon. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note The term must specify whether it means account closure, data erasure, model termination, or death of a rights-bearing continuant. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Second Loss|Second Loss]] · [[wiki/Right to Digital Death|Right to Digital Death]] · [[wiki/Identity Retirement at Death|Identity Retirement at Death]] · [[wiki/Administrative Existence|Administrative Non-Existence]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://cnil.fr/fr/cahier-ip-n10