# Identity Retirement at Death **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Legal Identity / Death **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Current identity-administration boundary ## Definition **Identity Retirement at Death** is the administrative rule or practice by which a living person's active legal identity is closed, marked deceased, or made unavailable for ordinary citizen transactions following death registration. ## Continuity Significance It is one of the strongest existing red-team boundaries against post-biological legal continuity. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence UN legal-identity architecture treats death registration as the end of the ordinary legal-identity lifecycle. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Retirement of an identity credential does not erase every estate, record, or posthumous right. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Death Registration as Ontological Boundary|Death Registration as Ontological Boundary]] · [[wiki/Legal Identity After Substrate Transition|Legal Identity After Substrate Transition]] · [[wiki/Administrative Existence|Administrative Non-Existence]] · [[wiki/Continuity Citizenship|Continuity Citizenship]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/